Brush-tailed phascogale Size:17 x 27 cm (A4) Pieter Goos's 'New Map of

Pieter Goos's 'New Map  of the World' (Nieuwe werelt kaert)

Creator Department of the Interior

the Union Bridge Company of Brooklyn

once endemic to Central Australia

the HMS Beagle embarked on a third voyage to survey the coasts of Australia (1837-1841)

Brush-tailed phascogale Size:17 x 27 cm (A4) Pieter Goos's 'New Map ofCreator 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.