Little Pygmy Possum
Cercartetus lepidus
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Mammals
The Tasmanian pygmy possum, also known as the little pygmy possum or tiny pygmy possum, is the world's smallest possum. It was first described by Oldfield Thomas in 1888, after he identified that a museum specimen labelled as an eastern pygmy possum in fact represented a species then unknown to science. The holotype resides in the Natural History Museum in London.
Classification
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Diprotodontia
- Family
- Burramyidae
- Genus
- Cercartetus