Species profile—Cercartetus caudatus (long-tailed pygmy-possum)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Burramyidae (pygmy-possums) → Cercartetus caudatus (long-tailed pygmy-possum)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Family
- Burramyidae (pygmy-possums)
- Scientific name
- Cercartetus caudatus (Milne-Edwards, 1877)
- Common name
- long-tailed pygmy-possum
- Type reference
- Milne-Edwards, A. (1877). Note sur quelques mammiferes nouveaux provenant de la Nouvelle-Guinee. Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris 85: 1079-1081 [1079]
- WildNet taxon ID
- 917
- Alternate name(s)
- Queensland pygmy-possum
- Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
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=917.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
