Phascogale Temminck 1824

Genus Phascogale Temminck, 1824 Type species . Didelphis penicillata Shaw, 1800 (in the combination Dasyurus penicillata ) [= Phascogale tapoatafa (F. Meyer, 1793)] by subsequent monotypy. Specific content . P . tapoatafa (Meyer, 1793), P . calura Gould, 1844, and P . pirata Thomas, 1904. Generic rediagnosis . Distinguished from all other genera of Phascogalinae by distal portion of tail with discrete brush of long black hairs; inner metatarsal tubercle united with first interdigital pad; outer metatarsal tubercle elongate; pinna with well-developed posterior notch and curled supratragus; bold facial patterning comprised of dark mid-rostral stripe, coronal patch and loreal stripe, and pale preauricular tuft, orbital crescents, cheek patch and supralabial bar; fur on upper chest and throat pure white to hair bases; ventral fur colour paler than dorsum and flanks; enlarged auditory bullae; well-developed maxillonasolabialis fossa extending onto anterior root of zygomatic arch; I1 enlarged and procumbent; I2 moderately to greatly enlarged; upper and lower canines enlarged. Remarks . Iredale & Troughton (1934) were the first to recognise the combination Phascogale tapoatafa (Meyer, 1793). ; Published as part of Have, Ten, 2015, Taxonomic revision of Phascogale tapoatafa (Meyer, 1793) (Dasyuridae; Marsupialia), including descriptions of two new subspecies and confirmation of P. pirata Thomas, 1904 as a ' Top End' endemic, pp. 1-73 in Zootaxa 4055 (1) on page 23, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4055.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240153