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Dasyuridae Goldfuss 1820

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Family Dasyuridae Goldfuss, 1820. Handb. Zool., 11:447.

COMMENTS: Some authors include Thylacinidae and Myrmecobiidae in this family; see Vaughan (1978:39); but also see Ride (1964b), Archer and Kirsch (1977), Kirsch and Calaby (1977:15), and Archer (1982) who retained these families. Revised by Tate (1947).

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Published as part of Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Dasyuromorphia, pp. 29-37 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 29, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353066

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Scientific name authorship
Goldfuss
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Dasyuromorphia
Family
Dasyuridae
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Dasyuridae Goldfuss, 1820 sec. Groves, 1993

References

  • Vaughan, T. A. 1978. Mammalogy. Second ed. W. B. Saunders, Philadelphia, PA, 522 pp.
  • Ride, W. D. L. 1964 b. A review of Australian fossil marsupials. Journal Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 47: 97 - 131.
  • Archer, M., and J. A. W. Kirsch. 1977. The case for the Thylacomyidae and Myrmecobiidae, Gill, 1872, or why are marsupial families so extended. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 102: 18 - 25.
  • Kirsch, J. A. W., and J. H. Calaby. 1977. The species of living marsupials: An annotated list. Pp. 9 - 26, in The biology of marsupials (B. Stonehouse and D. Gilmore, eds.). University Park Press, Baltimore, 486 pp.
  • Archer, M. 1982. Review of the dasyurid (Marsupialia) fossil record, integration of data bearing on phylogenetic interpretation, and suprageneric classification. Pp. 397 - 443, in Carnivorous Marsupials (M. Archer, ed). Royal Society of New South Wales, Syndey, 2: 1 - 804.
  • Tate, G. H. H. 1947. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 56. On the anatomy and classification of the Dasyuridae (Marsupialia). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 88: 102 - 155.