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Dasyuridae Goldfuss 1820
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Description
Family DASYURIDAE
(CARNIVOROUS MARSUPIALS)
• Smallto medium-sized carnivorous marsupials with small lower incisors and bushy, carrotshaped, or gradually tapered tails, slightly shorter or longer than headbody length.
• 10-130 cm.
• Australasian Region.
• Semi-arid to arid deserts and xeric shrublands; grasslands and savannas; open and closed forests and woodlands; swamps; temperate to tropical rainforests.
• 17 genera, 74 species, 99 extanttaxa.
• | species Critically Endangered, 5 species Endangered, 5 species Vulnerable; no species Extinct since 1600.
Notes
Published as part of Russell A. Mittermeier & Don E. Wilson, 2015, Dasyuridae, pp. 232-348 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 5 Monotremes and Marsupials, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 232, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6608102
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Goldfuss
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Dasyuromorphia
- Family
- Dasyuridae
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dasyuridae Goldfuss, 1820 sec. Mittermeier & Wilson, 2015