Dasycercus cristicauda (originally 'Chaetocercus' Krefft 1867; Peters 1875; 22cm + 13 cm tail) is the extant mulgara, considered a dasyurid marsupial. Here carnivorous, nocturnal Dasycercus nests apart from Dasyurus between Anebodon and Asioryctes at the base of the herbivorous clade of marsupials. The pouch is reduced to two lateral folds of skin.

Alexander W 1923. Notes on the Fat-tailed Marsupial Mouse (Sminthopsis crassicaudata), Memoirs of the Queensland Museum: 7.

Peters WCH 1875. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1875: 73.

Tate GHH 1951. The banded anteater, Myrmecobius Waterhouse (Marsupialia). American Museum Novitates 1521, 8 pp.

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