Species profile—Cercartetus nanus (eastern pygmy-possum)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Burramyidae (pygmy-possums) → Cercartetus nanus (eastern pygmy-possum)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Family
- Burramyidae (pygmy-possums)
- Scientific name
- Cercartetus nanus (Desmarest, 1818)
- Common name
- eastern pygmy-possum
- Type reference
- Desmarest, A.G. (1818). in, Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, appliquee aux arts, a l'agriculture, a l'economie rurale et domestique, a la medecine etc. Nouv. Edn. Paris: Deterville Tom. 25
- WildNet taxon ID
- 918
- Alternate name(s)
- pygmy-possum
possum mouse
dormouse opossum
common dormouse-phalanger - 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=918.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
