Species profile—Dasyuroides byrnei (kowari)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Dasyuridae (dasyurids) → Dasyuroides byrnei (kowari)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Family
- Dasyuridae (dasyurids)
- Scientific name
- Dasyuroides byrnei (Spencer, 1896)
- Common name
- kowari
- Type reference
- Spencer, B. (1896). Mammalia. pp. 1-52 in Spencer, B. (ed.) Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Austrtalia. Pt 2. Zoology. Melbourne : Melville, Mullen & Slade.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 827
- Alternate name(s)
- brush-tailed marsupial rat
bushy-tailed marsupial rat
dasyroides
brushy-tailed marsupial rat
Byrne's crest-tailed marsupial rat - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Endangered
- Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC) status
- Endangered
- Conservation significant
- Yes
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Map
- View Map
Other resources
- Species Profile and Threats Database (SPRAT)
- Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM)
- Atlas of Living Australia
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=827.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
