Dasyurinae

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Dasyurinae
Tiger Quoll
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Infraclass: Marsupialia Order: Dasyuromorphia Family: Dasyuridae Subfamily: Dasyurinae Goldfuss, 1820
Tribes & Genera
Dasyurini - 10 genera Phascogalini - 7 genera

The subfamily Dasyurinae includes several genera of small carnivorous marsupials native to Australia: quolls, Kowari, Mulgara, Kaluta, dibblers, pseudantechinuses, and the Tasmanian Devil. The subfamily is defined largely on biochemical criteria.

Order Dasyuromorphia

• Family Thylacinidae
• Family Dasyuridae: (carnivorous marsupials)
  • SUBFAMILY DASYURINAE:
    • Tribe Dasyurini
      • mulgaras = Dasycercus spp
      • Little Red Kaluta = Dasykaluta rosamondae
      • Kowari = Dasyuroides byrnei
      • quolls = Dasyurus spp.
      • some dasyures = Myoictis and Neophascogale spp.
      • Southern Dibbler = Parantechinus apicalis
      • marsupial shrews = Phascolosorex spp.
      • false antechinuses = Pseudantechinus spp. (includes Sandstone Dibbler)
      • Tasmanian Devil = Sarcophilus harrisii
    • Tribe Phascogalini
      • antechinuses = Antechinus spp.
      • other dasyures = Micromurexia, Murexechinus, Murexia, Paramurexia, Phascomurexia spp.
      • phascogales = Phascogale spp.
  • Subfamily Sminthopsinae: dunnarts, Kultarr, planigales and ningauas
• Family Myrmecobiidae

[edit] References

• Groves, Colin (16 November 2005). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 24-32. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. 
• Strahan, Ronald (1995). The Mammals of Australia, Reed Books, 54