Bag mouse

Broad-footed pouch-mouse Antechinus stuartii

As bag mice are called several genera from the family of the predatory pouches (Dasyuridae), whereby this term does not represent a biological classification, since some species are more closely related to the large predatory pouches such as marsupial devils or pouch martens than to each other. They are not related to the mice of the rodent order . Bag mice are usually carnivores and live in Australia and neighboring islands as well as New Guinea .

The following genera are known as pouch mice:

• Comb-tailed pouch mouse or Mulgara ( Dasycercus cristicauda )
• Red broad-footed pouch mouse ( Dasykaluta rosamondae )
• Double- Combed Pouch Mouse or Kowari ( Dasyuroides byrnei )
• Spitzhörnchenbeutler ( Neophascogale lorentzi )
• Speckled pouch mouse ( Parantechinus apicalis )
• Striped sac mice ( Phascolosorex ), two species
• Fat-tailed pouch mice ( Pseudantechinus ), six species
• Broad-footed bag mice ( Antechinus ), 15 species
• Brushtail Butler ( Phascogale ), two species
• New Guinea bag mice ( Murexia ), five species
• Springbag mouse or Kultarr ( Antechinomys laniger )
• Ningauis ( Ningaui ), three types
• Narrow-foot pouch mice ( Sminthopsis ), around twenty species
• Flat head pouch mice ( Planigale ), five species

literature

• DE Wilson, DM Reeder: Mammal Species of the World . Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2005. ISBN 0801882214