Phascogales
The red-tailed phascogale lives in forest in just one place in Western Australia.
The brush-tailed phascogale is found in more places in Australia.
The red-tailed phascogale is an opportunistic feeder, preying on a wide range of insects and spiders, small birds and small mammals. It does not need to drink, obtaining water from its food. The red-tailed phascogale is arboreal and mainly nocturnal.
Brush-tailed Phascogale - profile
Scientific name: Phascogale tapoatafa
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable
Description ...
Phascogale
Red-tailed Phascogale (P. calura) Â- Brush-tailed Phascogale (P. tapoatafa)
Family Dasyuridae, subfamily Sminthopsinae ...
Red-tailed Phascogale
Ring-tailed Possum (Western Ring-tailed Possum)
Rock Wallaby (Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby) ...
Brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa)
Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii)
Kowari (Dasyuroides byrnei)
Carpentarian pseudantechinus (Pseudantechinus mimulus)
Dibbler (Parantechinus apicalis) ...
Taxonomists divide the family into four subfamilies, the Dasyurinae (quolls, Tasmanian devil, kowari, mulgara, kaluta, dibblers, pseudantechinuses, and parantechinuses), Phascogalinae (phascogales and other antechinuses), ...
 See also: Marsupial, Rat, Mouse, Kangaroo, Quoll
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