Phascogale calura is a chordate, or more specifically a mammal, in the Dasyuridae family.

Phascogale calura is commonly known (its common name) as the Red-Tailed Phascogale or the Red-Tailed Wambenger in English. In French (Français), Phascogale calura is commonly known as the Petit Phascogale.

Phascogale calura is classified as endangered by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant and animal species maintained by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Phascogale calura's population trend was decreasing at last assessment, meaning its numbers are declining in the wild.

Species Authority: The species authority, or the name(s) of scientist(s) or person(s) who first described Phascogale calura is Gould, 1844 (IUCN Red List).

Country Distribution: Phascogale calura is found in the following countries:

Australia (Western Australia) (IUCN Red List).

Biome(s)/Ecosystem(s): IUCN lists the following as biomes for Phascogale calura: Terrestrial (IUCN Red List).

Major Habitat(s): 1.5 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry 4.5 Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry Lowland (IUCN Red List).

Range: This species occurs in remnant bushland in the WA Wheatbelt between Brookton and the Fitzgerald River NP, receiving between 350600 mm of rainfall. Isolated reserves as small as 67 ha support populations of P. calura. (IUCN Red List).

CONSERVATION STATUS

Red List Category & Criteria: Phascogale calura is listed as EN B1+2bd ver 2.3 (1994) (IUCN Red List).

Year Assessed: Phascogale calura's status was assessed in 1996 (IUCN Red List).

Assessor: Phascogale calura's Red List status was evaluated by Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group (IUCN Red List).

Data Sources for IUCN data: The following is a list of citations from the IUCN web site for Phascogale calura:

Citations listed by IUCN

Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1986. 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1988. 1988 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Kitchener, D.J. 1981. Breeding, diet and habitat preference of Phascogale calura (Gould 1844) (Marsupalia: Dasyuridae) in the southern wheatbelt, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 9:173-186.

Maxwell, S., Burbidge, A.A. and Morris, K. (compilers) 1996. Action Plan for Australian Marsupials and Monotremes. IUCN/SSC Australasian Marsupial and Monotreme Specialist Group. .

Scott, P. (ed.) 1965. Section XIII. Preliminary List of Rare Mammals and Birds. In: The Launching of a New Ark, pp. 15–207. First Report of the President and Trustees of the World Wildlife Fund. An International Foundation for saving the world's wildlife and wild places 1961–1964. Collins, London.

Thornback, J. and Jenkins, M. 1982. The IUCN Mammal Red Data Book. Part 1: Threatened mammalian taxa of the Americas and the Australasian zoogeographic region (excluding Cetacea). IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

(IUCN Red List).

Links: IUCN Red List Profile for Phascogale calura (IUCN Red List).

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