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Cercartetus
Sign in to saveThe genus Cercartetus is a group of very small possums known as pygmy possums. Four species comprise this genus, which together with the genus Burramys make up the marsupial family Burramyidae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderDiprotodontia
- FamilyBurramyidae
Observations recorded18,911
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 71
- With media
- 7
- Family
- Burramyidae
- Collections
- ANWC, AMNH, USNM, UCMP, CUMV, TMAG
- Recorded in
- Australia, Papua New Guinea, Australasia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- pygmy possum
- Image
- Eastern Pygmy Possum Pilliga Forest NSW.jpg
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- temporal range start
- Late Pleistocene
- taxon name
- Cercartetus
- Commons category
- Cercartetus
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Cercartetus
- endemic to
- Australia
- taxon author citation
- Gloger, 1841
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The genus Cercartetus is a group of very small possums known as pygmy possums. Four species comprise this genus, which together with the genus Burramys make up the marsupial family Burramyidae.
It has occasionally been presumed that Cercaërtus was a misspelling or synonym of Cercartetus. However, the name Cercaërtus is a junior synonym of Trichosurus and not of Cercartetus.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cercartetus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.