Phascogale

Taxobox
name = "Phascogale"

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image_width = 250px
image_caption = Brush-tailed Phascogale ("Phascogale tapoatafa")
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
infraclassis = Marsupialia
ordo = Dasyuromorphia
familia = Dasyuridae
subfamilia = Dasyurinae
tribus = Phascogalini
genus = "Phascogale"
genus_authority = Temminck, 1824
type_species = "Didelphis penicillata"
type_species_authority = Shaw, 1800
(= "Vivera tapoatafa", F. Meyer, 1793
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Phascogale tapoatafa"
"Phascogale calura"

The Phascogales (members of the eponymous genus "Phascogale"), also known as Wambengers, are carnivorous Australian marsupials of the family Dasyuridae. There are two species: the Brush-tailed Phascogale ("Phascogale tapoatafa") and the Red-tailed Phascogale ("Phascogale calura"). As with a number of dasyurid species, the males live for only one year, dying after a period of frenzied mating. The term "Phascogale" was coined in 1824 by Coenraad Jacob Temminck in reference to the Brush-tailed Phascogale, and means "pouched weasel".

References

*MSW3 Groves|pages=31-32

External links

* [http://www.fnpw.org.au/enews4/phascogale.htm Brush-tailed Phascogale]
* [http://www.naturebase.net/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_details/Itemid,1288/gid,124/ Brush-tailed Phascogale]
* [http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/phascogale.htm Red-tailed Phascogale]
* [http://www.australianfauna.com/redtailedphascogale.php Red-tailed Phascogale]