The Phascogalini are a

tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English language, English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in p ...

in the family

Dasyuridae The Dasyuridae are a family of marsupials native to Australia and New Guinea, including 71 extant species divided into 17 genera. Many are small and mouse-like or shrew-like, giving some of them the name marsupial mice or marsupial shrews, but th ...

, comprising seven genera of small

marsupial Marsupials are any members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia. All extant marsupials are endemic to Australasia, Wallacea and the Americas. A distinctive characteristic common to most of these species is that the young are carried in a po ...

s native to

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

and

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surrounding areas of Port Moresby (Capital of Papua New Guinea). It is a simplified version of ...

Classification

* Tribe Phascogalini ** Genus '' Antechinus'' *** Tropical antechinus, ''Antechinus adustus'' ***

Agile antechinus The agile antechinus (''Antechinus agilis'') is a species of small carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae. It is found in Australia. Taxonomy The agile antechinus was long considered to be a form of the brown antechinus (''Antechinus s ...

, ''Antechinus agilis'' ***

Fawn antechinus The fawn antechinus (''Antechinus bellus'') is a species of small carnivorous marsupial found in northern Australia. It is the only '' Antechinus'' to be found in the Northern Territory and has a patchy, restricted range. Taxonomy The earliest ...

, ''Antechinus bellus'' ***

Yellow-footed antechinus The yellow-footed antechinus (''Antechinus flavipes''), also known as the mardo, is a shrew-like marsupial found in Australia. One notable feature of the species is its sexual behavior. The male yellow-footed antechinus engages in such frenzie ...

, ''Antechinus flaviceps'' *** Atherton antechinus, ''Antechinus godmani'' *** Cinnamon antechinus, ''Antechinus leo'' ***

Swamp antechinus The swamp antechinus (''Antechinus minimus''), also known as the little Tasmanian marsupial mouse, is a species of shrew-like marsupial of the family Dasyuridae and as such is related to dunnarts, quolls and the Tasmanian devil. Taxonomy The s ...

, ''Antechinus minimus'' ***

Brown antechinus The brown antechinus (''Antechinus stuartii''), also known as Stuart's antechinus and Macleay's marsupial mouse, is a species of small carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae. The males die after their first breeding season, and the specie ...

, ''Antechinus stuartii'' ***

Subtropical antechinus The subtropical antechinus (''Antechinus subtropicus'') is a species of small carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae. It was previously thought to be conspecific with the brown antechinus (''Antechinus stuartii''). The subtropical antec ...

, ''Antechinus subtropicus'' ***

Dusky antechinus The dusky antechinus (''Antechinus swainsonii''), also known as Swainson's antechinus or the dusky marsupial mouse, is a species of small marsupial carnivore, a member of the family Dasyuridae. It is found in Australia. Taxonomy The dusky antec ...

, ''Antechinus swainsonii'' ** Genus ''

Murexia ''Murexia'' is a genus of mice-sized dasyure, in the marsupial order Dasyuromorphia. They are found in Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Species The genus was previously considered a monotypic genus, but now seven species are recognised. ...

'' ***

Short-furred dasyure The short-furred dasyure (''Murexia longicaudata''), also known as the short-haired marsupial mouse, is a member of the order Dasyuromorphia. It was once recognised as the only species in the genus ''Murexia'', but now five species are recognised ...

, ''Murexia longicaudata'' ***

Long-nosed dasyure The long-nosed dasyure (''Murexia naso'') is a species of marsupial in the family Dasyuridae. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the ...

, ''Murexia naso'' ***

Black-tailed dasyure The black-tailed dasyure (''Murexia melanurus'') is a species of marsupial in the family Dasyuridae. Range and habitat The Black-tailed dasyure is native to New Guinea, where it ranges across the Central Cordillera of Western New Guinea, which ...

, ''Murexia melanurus'' ***

Habbema dasyure The Habbema dasyure (''Murexia habbema'') is a species of marsupial in the family Dasyuridae found in West Papua, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officia ...

, ''Murexia habbema'' ***

Broad-striped dasyure The broad-striped dasyure (''Murexia rothschildi'') is a species of marsupial in the family Dasyuridae. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. Some authorities place it in the monotypic ...

, ''Murexia rothschildi'' ***

Murexia xenochromus ''Murexia'' is a genus of mice-sized dasyure, in the marsupial order Dasyuromorphia. They are found in Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Species The genus was previously considered a monotypic genus, but now seven species are recognised. ...

***

Murexia hageni The Habbema dasyure (''Murexia habbema'') is a species of marsupial in the family Dasyuridae found in West Papua, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officia ...

** Genus ''

Phascogale The phascogales (members of the eponymous genus ''Phascogale''), also known as wambengers or mousesacks,A Hollow Victory
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Red-tailed phascogale The red-tailed phascogale (''Phascogale calura''), also known as the red-tailed wambenger, red-tailed mousesack or kenngoor, is a small carnivorous marsupial found in inland areas of south-western Western Australia, and has been reintroduced in ...

, ''Phascogale calura'' ***

Brush-tailed phascogale The brush-tailed phascogale (''Phascogale tapoatafa''), also known by its Australian native name tuan, the common wambenger, the black-tailed mousesack or the black-tailed phascogale, is a rat-sized arboreal carnivorous marsupial of the family D ...

, ''Phascogale tapoatafa'' ***

Northern brush-tailed phascogale The northern brush-tailed phascogale (''Phascogale pirata''), also known as the northern brush-tailed wambenger or northern brush-tailed mousesack is a species of marsupial in the family Dasyuridae. It is endemic Endemism is the state of a ...

''Phascogale pirata''

References

* Dasyuromorphs Mammal tribes {{marsupial-stub