Species profile—Dasycercus cristicauda (crest-tailed mulgara)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Dasyuridae (dasyurids) → Dasycercus cristicauda (crest-tailed mulgara)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Family
- Dasyuridae (dasyurids)
- Scientific name
- Dasycercus cristicauda (Krefft, 1867)
- Common name
- crest-tailed mulgara
- Type reference
- Krefft, G. (1867). On the classification of the small Dasyuridae of Australia, with descriptions of two new genera and one new species. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1866: 431-435.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 26895
- Synonym(s)
- Dasycercus hillieri
- Alternate name(s)
- crest-tailed marsupial mouse
mulgara
ampurta - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Vulnerable
- Back on Track (BoT) status
- High
- Conservation significant
- Yes
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Map
- View Map
Other resources
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living AustraliaData source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=26895
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
