Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Eastern Pygmy Possum being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Acrobates frontalis
- Cercartetus concinnus
- Acrobates pygmaeus
- Dromiciops gliroides
- Thylamys elegans
- Graphiurus murinus
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Diprotodontia
- Family
- Burramyidae
- Genus
- Cercartetus
- Species
- Cercartetus nana
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