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Tate's triok

Dactylopsila tatei Laurie, 1952

ENEndangeredmarsupials

The tate's triok (Dactylopsila tatei) is a species in the family Petauridae, order Diprotodontia. Recorded adults weigh 252 g to 359 g and live up to 9.58 years. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Australia. Its IUCN Red List status is Endangered.

Tate's triok (Dactylopsila tatei)
Photo: Laurie, 1952 · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the tate's triok

Weight
252 g – 359 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
Endangered (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does the tate's 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 tate's 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 tate's triok?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

Tate's triok, also known as the Fergusson Island striped possum (Dactylopsila tatei), is a species of marsupial in the family Petauridae. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.

From the Wikipedia article “Tate's triok” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tate%27s_triok&oldid=1351689417), 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 tate's triok endangered?

The tate's triok is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List: it faces a very high risk of extinction in the wild.

  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 Endangered species. What the categories mean.

How is the tate's triok classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classMammalia
  4. orderDiprotodontia
  5. familyPetauridae
  6. genusDactylopsila
  7. SpeciesDactylopsila tatei Laurie, 1952

Synonyms Dactylonax tatei, Dactylopsila tater

Other names and names in other languages (15)
  • Fergusson island striped possumEnglish
  • Fergusson island striped possumEnglish
  • Tate s triokEnglish
  • Tate's striped possumEnglish
  • Tate’s triokEnglish
  • تريوك تيتArabic
  • vakoveverka fergussonskáCzech
  • Tate-StreifenbeutlerGerman
  • Fergusson-StreifenbeutlerGerman
  • Falangero Rayado del Monte MayboleSpanish
  • fergussoninliitopussikasFinnish
  • ファーガソンフクロシマリスJapanese
  • palcownik wyspowyPolish
  • Possum-listrado-da-Ilha-FergussonPortuguese
  • Кускус ТейтаRussian

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

Relatives of the tate's 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 tate's triok?

An adult tate's triok weighs 252 g – 359 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does the tate's triok live?

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

Is the tate's triok endangered?

The tate's triok is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List, meaning it faces a very high risk of extinction in the wild.

How long does the tate's triok live?

The tate's triok has a recorded lifespan of 9.58 years.

What kind of animal is the tate's triok?

The tate's triok (Dactylopsila tatei) 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). Tate's triok (Dactylopsila tatei). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/tates-triok

MLA

“Tate's triok (Dactylopsila tatei).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/tates-triok.

BibTeX
@misc{tates_triok_2026,
  title = {Tate's triok (Dactylopsila tatei)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/tates-triok},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}