Slender-tailed Dunnart
Male, Hind Feet Soles
Murray Mallee Region
Black-faced Kangaroo
Hamish
 
                      
Slender-tailed Dunnart (Sminthopsis murina)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Mammals (Mammalia)
Order: Carnivorous marsupials (Dasyuromorphia)
Family: Carnivorous Marsupials (Dasyuridae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Slender-tailed Dunnart (Sminthopsis murina)
This Photo:     🔍Male, Released🔎

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray Mallee SA, Riverland and possibly elsewhere
These were found on an expedition North of here, with a team of people helping with id's.
We ask that you do not try this without expert supervision. It'd be easy to injure the animal, or get bitten.
A small mouse like marsupial. Females have a pouch
The soles of the rear feet have diagnostic pads.

Copyright © 2019-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 15-Oct-2019
This species is classed as NT (Near Threatened) in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)