Species profile—Trichosurus vulpecula (common brushtail possum)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Phalangeridae (Brushtail Possums, Cuscuses & Scaly-tailed Possum) → Trichosurus vulpecula (common brushtail possum)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Family
- Phalangeridae (Brushtail Possums, Cuscuses & Scaly-tailed Possum)
- Scientific name
- Trichosurus vulpecula (Kerr, 1792)
- Common name
- common brushtail possum
- Type reference
- Kerr, R. (1792). The Animal Kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus; Class1. Mammalia: containing a complete systematic description, arrangement, and nomenclature, of all the known species and varieties of the Mammalia, or animals which give suck to their young; being a translation of that part of the Systema Naturae, as lately published, with great improvements, by Professor Gmelin of Goettingen. Together with numerous additions from more recent zoological writers, and illustrated with copper plates. J. Murray & R. Faulder, London. Volume 1.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 859
- Synonym(s)
- Trichosurus johnstonii
Trichosurus vulpecula johnstoni
Trichosurus vulpecula johnsoni
Trichosurus vulpecula eburacensis
Trichosurus vulpecula vulpecula - Alternate name(s)
- brushtail possum
bushy-tail possum
coppery brushtail
coppery brush-tailed possum
silver-grey possum - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Agricultural Pest
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=859.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
