Animalz

Dactylopsila

  • Great-tailed Striped Possum Dactylopsila megalura
    Great-tailed Striped Possum
    Photo: Gordon Greaves · CC BY-SA 4.0

    The great-tailed triok is a nocturnal, arboreal marsupial of interior New Guinea forests. Its thick fur has dark stripes over a white or gray base.

  • Striped Possum Dactylopsila trivirgata
    Striped Possum
    Photo: Jacqui Rock · CC BY-SA 3.0

    The Striped Possum is a nocturnal marsupial of northern Queensland's tropical forests and lowland New Guinea. It is marked with black-and-white stripes and has an elongated finger used to probe for insects.

  • Pygmy Long-fingered Possum Dactylopsila kambuayai

    A 2026 revision places this small striped possum in Dactylonax rather than Dactylopsila. After it was known only from fossils, living individuals were documented in lowland forest on the Vogelkop Peninsula of western New Guinea. Much of its natural history remains poorly known.

  • Long-fingered Striped Possum Dactylopsila palpator

    The long-fingered striped possum is a nocturnal marsupial of interior New Guinea forests. Its dense fur is described as smoky brown over a grayish-tawny base.

  • Tate's Striped Possum Dactylopsila tatei

    Tate's striped possum lives in forests on Fergusson Island, moving through trees at night and feeding on insects, fruit, and leaves. Three dark stripes run along its back.

  • Striped Possum Dactylopsila trivirgata
    Striped Possum
    Photo: Jacqui Rock · CC BY-SA 3.0

    The Striped Possum is a nocturnal marsupial of northern Queensland's tropical forests and lowland New Guinea. It is marked with black-and-white stripes and has an elongated finger used to probe for insects.

  • Great-tailed Striped Possum Dactylopsila megalura

    The great-tailed triok is a nocturnal, arboreal marsupial of interior New Guinea forests. Its thick fur has dark stripes over a white or gray base.