Brush-tailed phascogale
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| phylum | Chordata | The brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa), also known by its Australian native name tuan, the common wambenger or the black-tailed phascogale, is a rat-sized arboreal carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae, characterized by a tuft of black silky hairs on the terminal portion of its tail. Males of this species do not live past the age of one, as they die after reproducing.
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| class | Mammalia | |
| infraclass | Metatheria | |
| order | Dasyuromorphia | |
| family | Dasyuridae | |
| genus | Phascogale | |
| species | P. tapoatafa |
