Fat-tailed Dunnart

Overview

The fat-tailed dunnart is a small marsupial with buff to brown fur and dark patches on the head and ears. Shefferly’s account describes nocturnal activity and a diet including grasshoppers, moths and beetles.

Females may raise successive litters when conditions favour breeding. The review gives a short gestation and litters reaching ten young. Observations of captive maternal aggression are distinguished from tentative suggestions about wild social organisation.

Origins & earliest records

Terrestrial

Evidence & interpretation

University species review.

Selected bibliography

Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.

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   Sminthopsis crassicaudata

   Nancy Shefferly · 1999

Family & connections

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References

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1. University synthesisSminthopsis crassicaudataResearch access: 2026-10-21

Image credits

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