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Great-tailed triok

Dactylopsila megalura Rothschild & Dollman, 1932

LCLeast Concernmarsupials

The great-tailed triok (Dactylopsila megalura) is a species in the family Petauridae, order Diprotodontia. Recorded adults weigh 277.7 g to 400 g and live up to 9.58 years. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Australia. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.

Great-tailed triok (Dactylopsila megalura)
Photo: Rothschild and Dollman, 1933 · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the great-tailed triok

Weight
277.7 g – 400 gsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
9.58 yearssrc for Lifespan
Diet
Invertivoresrc for Diet
Longest recorded lifespan
9.6 years
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
1.52src for Young per litter or clutch
Litters or clutches a year
1.1src for Litters or clutches a year
Active
At night (nocturnal)src for Active
Lifestyle
Arborealsrc for Lifestyle
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does the great-tailed triok 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 great-tailed triok 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 great-tailed triok?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

The great-tailed triok (Dactylopsila megalura) is a species of marsupial in the family Petauridae. It is found in West Papua and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.

The great-tailed triok lives in the tropical and subtropical biomes in Australasia. They are also in the family of mammal gliders. The family of gliders have corneal eyes with night vision, because they are also nocturnal mammals. Since the great-tailed triok are omnivores, their diet consists of both plants and animals. The mammal is listed as least threatened and is hunted by local people for food but rarely encountered.

From the Wikipedia article “Great-tailed triok” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Great-tailed_triok&oldid=1351689391), 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 great-tailed triok endangered?

The great-tailed triok 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 great-tailed triok classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classMammalia
  4. orderDiprotodontia
  5. familyPetauridae
  6. genusDactylopsila
  7. SpeciesDactylopsila megalura Rothschild & Dollman, 1932

Synonyms Dactylonax megalura

Other names and names in other languages (10)
  • Great-tailed striped possumEnglish
  • تريوك كبير الذيلArabic
  • vakoveverka velkoocasáCzech
  • Bürstenschwanz-StreifenbeutlerGerman
  • Falangero Rayado de Cola GrandeSpanish
  • uuden-guineanliitopussikasFinnish
  • オナガフクロシマリスJapanese
  • palcownik wielkoogonowyPolish
  • Possum-Listrado-de-cauda-largaPortuguese
  • Большехвостый кускусRussian

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

Relatives of the great-tailed triok

Other species in the same genus Dactylopsila.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the great-tailed triok?

An adult great-tailed triok weighs 277.7 g – 400 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does the great-tailed triok live?

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

Is the great-tailed triok endangered?

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

How long does the great-tailed triok live?

The great-tailed triok has a recorded lifespan of 9.58 years.

What kind of animal is the great-tailed triok?

The great-tailed triok (Dactylopsila megalura) belongs to the family Petauridae in the order Diprotodontia.

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). Great-tailed triok (Dactylopsila megalura). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/great-tailed-triok

MLA

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BibTeX
@misc{great_tailed_triok_2026,
  title = {Great-tailed triok (Dactylopsila megalura)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/great-tailed-triok},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}