Dasyurini

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Kingdom Animalia Infraclass Marsupialia Family Dasyuridae Scientific name Dasyurini Gestation period Tasmanian devil: 21 days Speed Tasmanian devil: 13 km/h		Phylum Chordata Order Dasyuromorphia Subfamily Dasyurinae Mass Tasmanian devil: 8 kg Higher classification Dasyurinae Rank Tribe

Lower classifications Quoll, Tasmanian devil, Mulgara, False antechinus, Marsupial shrew

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

Wallace's dasyure, Myoictis wallacii

Myoictis wavicus

Genus Neophascogale

Speckled dasyure, Neophascogale lorentzi

Genus Parantechinus

Dibbler, Parantechinus apicalis

Genus Phascolosorex

Genus Pseudantechinus

Sandstone dibbler, Pseudantechinus bilarni

Fat-tailed false antechinus, Pseudantechinus macdonnellensis

Alexandria false antechinus, Pseudantechinus mimulus

Ningbing false antechinus, Pseudantechinus ningbing

Woolley's false antechinus, Pseudantechinus woolleyae

Genus Sarcophilus

Tasmanian devil, Sarcophilus harrisii

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