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Fat-tailed dunnart

Sminthopsis crassicaudata (Gould, 1844)

LCLeast Concernmarsupials

The fat-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata) is a species in the family Dasyuridae, order Dasyuromorphia. Recorded adults weigh 14.6 g to 16 g and live up to 2 years. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Australia. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.

Fat-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata)
Photo: John Gould · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the fat-tailed dunnart

Weight
14.6 g – 16 gsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
2 yearssrc for Lifespan
Diet
Invertivoresrc for Diet
Longest recorded lifespan
5.08 years
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Gestation
15 dayssrc for Gestation
Young per litter or clutch
7src for Young per litter or clutch
Age at maturity
4 months – 5.22 monthssrc for Age at maturity
Litters or clutches a year
2src for Litters or clutches a year
Active
At night (nocturnal)src for Active
Lifestyle
Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does the fat-tailed dunnart live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

The fat-tailed dunnart is listed for 1 country.

Australia
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Australia

Why a country list is not a range map

Listed by: ITIS (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.

What is the fat-tailed dunnart?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

The fat-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata) is a species of mouse-like marsupial of the Dasyuridae, the family that includes the little red kaluta, quolls, and the Tasmanian devil.

From the Wikipedia article “Fat-tailed dunnart” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fat-tailed_dunnart&oldid=1372249062), by Wikipedia contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). This block is kept separate from our own text.

Is the fat-tailed dunnart endangered?

The fat-tailed dunnart is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: it is not currently at risk of extinction.

  1. LCLeast Concern
  2. NTNear Threatened
  3. VUVulnerable
  4. ENEndangered
  5. CRCritically Endangered
  6. EWExtinct in the Wild
  7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Least Concern species. What the categories mean.

How is the fat-tailed dunnart classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classMammalia
  4. orderDasyuromorphia
  5. familyDasyuridae
  6. genusSminthopsis
  7. SpeciesSminthopsis crassicaudata (Gould, 1844)

Synonyms Phascogale crassicaudata

Other names and names in other languages (12)
  • دنارت سمين الذيلArabic
  • Tykhalet pungspidsmusDanish
  • Dickschwänzige SchmalfußbeutelmausGerman
  • Ratón Marsupial de Cola GruesaSpanish
  • rasvahäntäpussikkoFinnish
  • Souris MarsupialeFrench
  • Souris Marsupiale À Grosse QueueFrench
  • オブトスミントプシスJapanese
  • FetthaledunnartNorwegian Bokmål
  • DikstaartsmalvoetbuidelmuisDutch
  • grubogonik australijskiPolish
  • Жирнохвостая сумчатая мышьRussian

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

Relatives of the fat-tailed dunnart

Other species in the same genus Sminthopsis.

DD, Data Deficient

Chestnut dunnart

Sminthopsis archeri

DasyuridaeNo free photo yet

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the fat-tailed dunnart?

An adult fat-tailed dunnart weighs 14.6 g – 16 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does the fat-tailed dunnart live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the fat-tailed dunnart for 1 country: Australia. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is the fat-tailed dunnart endangered?

The fat-tailed dunnart is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, meaning it is not currently at risk of extinction.

How long does the fat-tailed dunnart live?

The fat-tailed dunnart has a recorded lifespan of 2 years.

How long is the fat-tailed dunnart pregnant?

The recorded gestation period is 15 days.

What kind of animal is the fat-tailed dunnart?

The fat-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata) belongs to the family Dasyuridae in the order Dasyuromorphia.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Fat-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/fat-tailed-dunnart

MLA

“Fat-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/fat-tailed-dunnart.

BibTeX
@misc{fat_tailed_dunnart_2026,
  title = {Fat-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/fat-tailed-dunnart},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}