Wongai ningaui: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the Wongai ningaui lives – recorded in 1 country, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Ningaui ridei
Group	Marsupials
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	1 country
Continents	Oceania
Class	Mammal
Order	Dasyuromorphia
Family	Dasyuridae

Where does the Wongai ningaui live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the Wongai ningaui in 1 country or territory across Oceania.

Australia

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

Is the Wongai ningaui endangered?

The Wongai ningaui’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the Wongai ningaui?

The Wongai ningaui (Ningaui ridei) is a mammal in the order Dasyuromorphia and the family Dasyuridae, genus Ningaui. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the Wongai ningaui

The Wongai ningaui (Ningaui ridei) is a tiny carnivorous marsupial native to the arid open grasslands of inland Australia. Their diet is mainly small insects, and occasionally larger prey such as spiders, grasshoppers and cockroaches, which they forage for at the ground and in clumps of spinifex. They have long and untidy fur, grey or gingery brown with longer black hairs, small ears, a narrow muzzle, and possess a partially prehensile tail and feet that allow them to climb. The population occurs sparsely across a wide area and common in favourable habitat, especially in years of good rainfall. Ningaui ridei was first described in 1975, one of two species of a new genus discovered amongst the poorly known mammals of the western regions of Australia.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Wongai ningaui (revision 1330241082), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q194746 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).