Crest-tailed mulgara

Crest-tailed mulgara
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Dasyuromorphia
Family: Dasyuridae
Genus: Dasycercus
Species:
†D. cristicauda
Binomial name
†Dasycercus cristicauda
(Krefft, 1867)

The crest-tailed mulgara (Dasycercus cristicauda) was a small Australian carnivorous marsupial. It was previously recognised as a senior synonym of the ampurta (D. hillieri), but is now believed to be a separate extinct taxon.[1] The same investigation also described the southern mulgara (D. archeri), and the northern mulgara (D. wolleyae), which were split from D. cristicauda. As a result of the taxonomic changes to this taxon, it is believed that D. cristicauda is now only known from subfossil specimens and the single live caught holotype specimen.[1]

Kreft, 1867, first described the species as 'Chaetocercus cristicauda' in 1877 based on a single specimen collected from southern Australia.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Newman-Martin, Jake; Travouillon, Kenny J.; Warburton, Natalie; Barham, Milo; Blyth, Alison J. (2023-10-02). "Taxonomic review of the genus Dasycercus (Dasyuromorphia: Dasyuridae) using modern and subfossil material; and the description of three new species". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 47 (4): 624–661. doi:10.1080/03115518.2023.2262083. ISSN 0311-5518.
  2. ↑ Woolley, P.A. (2005). The species of Dasycercus Peters, 1875 (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 62(2), 213–221.
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