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  Family Dasyuridae or dasyurids
I could believe it's some sort of Dasyurid species (Dasyuridae is the family to which the Tassie Devil belongs, it includes quolls and most of the animals commonly called marsupial mice).
The northern quoll, Dasyurus hallucatus (family Dasyuridae) is commonly referred to locally as "native cat.
Earlier authorities such as Le Souef and Burrell (1926), and Troughton (1967) categorized it with the Dasyuridae partly because dasyurids are the only carnivorous, polyprotodont, didactylous group to occur in Australia.
thewebsiteofeverything.com /animals/mammals/Dasyuromorphia/Dasyuridae   (317 words)

  
 Dasyuridae - BIRD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The family Dasyuridae contains almost all of the living marsupial carnivores, including the quolls, phascogales, antechinuses, dunnarts, planigales, and Tasmanian Devil: about 55 species in all.
The primary specialisation among marsupial predators is that of size: prior to the massive environmental changes that came about with the arrival of humans about 50,000 years ago, there were several very large carnivores, none of them members of the Dasyuridae and all of them now extinct.
Those that survived into historical times ranged from the wolf-sized Thylacine (not a dasyurid but closely related) to the tiny Long-tailed Planigale which at 4 to 6 grams is less than half the size of a mouse.
bird.net.au /bird/index.php?title=Dasyuridae   (294 words)

  
 Stress and mortality in the red-tailed phascogale, Phascogale calura (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae).   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Stress and mortality in the red-tailed phascogale, Phascogale calura (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae).
An investigation was made of endocrine changes occurring during the life history of Phascogale calura, a small, arboreal, squirrel-like insectivorous marsupial.
This is the first detailed description of endocrine changes which accompany a stress-related total male mortality in a dasyurid marsupial species which does not belong to genus Antechinus.
www.arclab.org /medlineupdates/abstract_3623073.html   (274 words)

  
 dasyure - HighBeam Encyclopedia
The fierce Tasmanian devil is a large, atypical dasyure.
Dasyures are classified in several genera of the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Marsupialia, family Dasyuridae.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "dasyure" at HighBeam.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/d/dasyure.asp   (201 words)

  
 Fossil sites of Australia - Riversleigh
A re-examination of proposed morphology-based synapomorphies for the families of Dasyuromorphia (Marsupialia): Part I, Dasyuridae.
Wroe, S., Mackness, B. Revision of the Pliocene dasyurid, Dasyurus dunmalli (Dasyuridae, Marsupialia).
Wroe, S., Muirhead, J. Evolution of Australian marsupicarnivores (Dasyuridae, Thylacinidae, Myrmecobiidae, Dasyuromorphia incertae sedis, Marsupialia incertae sedis).
www.amonline.net.au /fossil_sites/publications.htm   (3540 words)

  
 Dasyuridae - English-French Dictionary - WordReference.com
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