Endangered
Dibbler
Parantechinus apicalis
Dibbler is a mammal in the family Dasyuridae (order Dasyuromorphia) — Parantechinus apicalis, recorded as Endangered and tied to Australia.
Appearance
Distinctive features include a white eye-ring, gray-brown fur flecked with white hairs, and a short tapering tail. The Dibbler is a small, nocturnal carnivore with speckled fur that is white around the eyes.
The Dibbler is 10–16 cm (3.9–6.3 in) long with a 7.5–12 cm (3.0–4.7 in) tail. It weighs 40–125 g (1.4–4.4 oz).
Published measurements include mass about 82.5 and length about 252.5.
Range and habitat
It is an inhabitant of the southwest mainland of Western Australia and some offshore islands.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
By 1884, they were declared extinct, but some were rediscovered at Cheyne Beach on the southern coast of Western Australia in 1967. Their predators are mainly feral foxes and feral cats.
Dibbler is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Dibbler, Wikidata item Q734940. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
