Biology:Dasyurini

Short description: Tribe of marsupials

Dasyurini
Tiger quoll
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Marsupialia
Order:	Dasyuromorphia
Family:	Dasyuridae
Subfamily:	Dasyurinae
Tribe:	Dasyurini Goldfuss, 1820
Genera
Dasycercus Dasykalua Dasyuroides Dasyurus Myoictis Neophascogale Parantechinus Phascolosorex Pseudantechinus Sarcophilus

The tribe Dasyurini includes several genera of small carnivorous marsupials native to Australia : quolls, kowari, mulgara, kaluta, dibblers, neophascogales, pseudantechinuses, and the Tasmanian devil.

Classification

• Tribe Dasyurini
  • Genus Dasycercus
    • Brush-tailed mulgara, Dasycercus blythi
    • Crest-tailed mulgara, Dasycercus cristicauda
  • Genus Dasykaluta
    • Little red kaluta, Dasykaluta rosamondae
  • Genus Dasyuroides
    • Kowari, Dasyuroides byrnei
  • Genus Dasyurus: quolls
    • New Guinean quoll, Dasyurus albopunctatus
    • Western quoll, Dasyurus geoffroii
    • Northern quoll, Dasyurus hallucatus
    • Tiger quoll, Dasyurus maculatus
    • Bronze quoll, Dasyurus spartacus
    • Eastern quoll, Dasyurus viverrinus
  • Genus Myoictis
    • Myoictis leucura
    • Three-striped dasyure, Myoictis melas
    • Wallace's dasyure, Myoictis wallacii
    • Myoictis wavicus
  • Genus Neophascogale
    • Speckled dasyure, Neophascogale lorentzi
  • Genus Parantechinus
    • Dibbler, Parantechinus apicalis
  • Genus Phascolosorex
    • Red-bellied marsupial shrew, Phascolosorex doriae
    • Narrow-striped marsupial shrew, Phascolosorex dorsalis
  • Genus Pseudantechinus
    • Sandstone false antechinus, Pseudantechinus bilarni
    • Fat-tailed false antechinus, Pseudantechinus macdonnellensis
    • Alexandria false antechinus, Pseudantechinus mimulus
    • Ningbing false antechinus, Pseudantechinus ningbing
    • Rory Cooper's false antechinus, Pseudantechinus roryi
    • Woolley's false antechinus, Pseudantechinus woolleyae
  • Genus Sarcophilus
    • Tasmanian devil, Sarcophilus harrisii

References

• Groves, C.P. (2005). Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M.. eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 24-28. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494. http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp. 

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