Family BURRAMYIDAE

(PYGMY POSSUMS)

• Smallsized terrestrial and arboreal marsupials, with forward-facing eyes, pointed heads, large oval-shaped ears, and well-developed papillae on tongue forming brush-like texture to collect pollen.

• • 10-25 cm.

• Australasian Region.

• Montane and lowland, rainforests to sclerophyll forests and woodlands.

• 9 genera, b species, 7 taxa.

• | species Critically Endangered; none Extinct since 1600.