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ANIMAL INFORMATION: Please note, this part of mongabay has been updated |
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Western RingtailEducational resources on Western RingtailWestern Ringtail or Pseudocheirus occidentalis is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Vulnerable due to C2a. IUCN Profile of the Western Ringtail www.uwsp.edu Western Ringtail [Opossum] Pseudocheirus occidentalis: 1940: southwestern Australia: Puerto Rican Nesophont [Shrew] Nesophontes edithae: 1500: western Puerto Rico www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/heywood/geog358/Endangr/extinctm/extinctML.htm www.uwsp.edu Western Ringtail [Oppossum] Pseudocheirus occidentalis: 1940: southwestern Australia: 335mm burrowing swamp/river valley herbivore/scavenger? natural www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/heywood/geog358/extinctm/extinctML.htm
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