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Crest-tailed mulgara

Crest-tailed mulgara
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Dasyuromorphia
Family: Dasyuridae
Genus: Dasycercus
Species: D. cristicauda
Binomial name
Dasycercus cristicauda
(Krefft, 1867)
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Crest-tailed mulgara range

The crest-tailed mulgara (Dasycercus cristicauda), also called the ampurta, is a species of carnivorous marsupial from Australia. Also called the crest-tailed marsupial mouse, this animal slightly resembles a placental rat.



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