Crest-tailed Mulgara
Dasycercus cristicauda
- Extinct
- Card rarity: Extinct
- Mammals
The crest-tailed mulgara was a small Australian carnivorous marsupial. It was previously recognised as a senior synonym of the ampurta, but is now believed to be a separate extinct taxon. The same investigation also described the southern mulgara, and the northern mulgara, which were split from D. cristicauda. As a result of the taxonomic changes to this taxon, it is believed that D. cristicauda is now only known from subfossil specimens and the single live caught holotype specimen.
Classification
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Dasyuromorphia
- Family
- Dasyuridae
- Genus
- Dasycercus