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
- Conservation significant
- Yes
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Map
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Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://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.
