Ampurta
| Crest-tailed mulgara Temporal range:
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|---|---|
| Crest-tailed mulgara, Simpson Desert | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Dasyuromorphia |
| Family: | Dasyuridae |
| Genus: | Dasycercus |
| Species: | D. hillieri
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| Binomial name | |
| Dasycercus hillieri (Thomas, 1905)
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| Crest-tailed mulgara range | |
The ampurta (Dasycercus hillieri, recently resurrected from synonymy with D. cristicauda) is a small to medium-sized Australian carnivorous marsupial and a member of the family Dasyuridae (meaning "hairy tail") which includes quolls, dunnarts, numbats, the endangered Tasmanian devil and the extinct thylacine.