Phascogale

Phascogale
Brush-tailed Phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Marsupialia
Order:	Dasyuromorphia
Family:	Dasyuridae
Subfamily:	Dasyurinae
Tribe:	Phascogalini
Genus:	Phascogale Temminck, 1824
Type species
Didelphis penicillata Shaw, 1800 (= Vivera tapoatafa, F. Meyer, 1793
Species
Phascogale tapoatafa Phascogale calura

The Phascogales (members of the eponymous genus Phascogale), also known as Wambengers, are carnivorous Australian marsupials of the family Dasyuridae. There are two species: the Brush-tailed Phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa) and the Red-tailed Phascogale (Phascogale calura). As with a number of dasyurid species, the males live for only one year, dying after a period of frenzied mating. The term Phascogale was coined in 1824 by Coenraad Jacob Temminck in reference to the Brush-tailed Phascogale, and means "pouched weasel".

References

• Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 31–32. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.

External links

• Brush-tailed Phascogale
• Brush-tailed Phascogale
• Red-tailed Phascogale
• Red-tailed Phascogale