Creator Gould's Mammals of Australia (1845-1863)

Date 1863

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 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. (Gould syn: Brush-tailed phascogale, Phascogale pencillata)

Source: Smithsonian Library