Phascogale
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{{Taxobox
| color = pink
| name = Phascogale
| image = Tasa-drawing.jpg
| image_width = 250px
| image_caption = Brush-tailed Phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa)
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Chordata
| classis = Mammalia
| subclassis = Marsupialia
| ordo = Dasyuromorphia
| familia = Dasyuridae
| subfamilia = Dasyurinae
| tribus = Phascogalini
| genus = Phascogale
| genus_authority = Temminck, 1824
| type_species = Didelphis penicillata
| type_species_authority = Shaw, 1800
(= Vivera tapoatafa, F. Meyer, 1793
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
Phascogale tapoatafa
Phascogale calura
}}
The Phascogales (members of the eponymous genus Phascogale), also known as Wambengers, are carnivorous Australian marsupials of the family Dasyuridae. There are two species; the Brush-tailed Phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa) and the Red-tailed Phascogale (Phascogale calura). As with a number of dasyurid species, the males live for only one year, dying after a period of frenzied mating.