Dasycercus cristicauda (Krefft, 1867:435)
Crest-tailed mulgara
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 1867 or earlier (date unclear) (Newman-Martin et al., 2023)
Distribution
southern and south-western Australia
Type locality: Lake Alexandrina (see Fusco et al., 2017) or near Port Augusta (see Parnaby et al., 2017)
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: AM M.11342 (Newman-Martin et al., 2023)
Other specimens:
WAM 67.10.74 (skull; sex indeterminate [subfossil]) (Newman-Martin et al., 2023)
WAM 2020.1.487 (dentary; sex indeterminate [subfossil]) (Newman-Martin et al., 2023)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Krefft, Gerard. (1867). On the classification of the small Dasyuridae of Australia, with descriptions of two new genera and one new species. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1866: 431-435.
Other references:
Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). (1996). 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. 448 pp.
Fusco, D. A., Mcdowell, M. C., Medlin, G. and Prideaux, Gavin J. (2017). Fossils reveal late Holocene diversity and post-European decline of the terrestrial mammals of the Murray–Darling Depression. Wildlife Research 44: 60-71.
Newman-Martin, Jake, Travouillon, Kenny J., Warburton, Natalie, Barham, Milo and Blyth, Alison J. (2023). Taxonomic review of the genus Dasycercus (Dasyuromorphia: Dasyuridae) using modern and subfossil material; and the description of three new species. Alcheringa. https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2023.2262083
Parnaby, H., Ingleby, S. and Divljan, A. (2017). Type specimens of non-fossil mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney. Records of the Australian Museum 69: 277-420.