Genus of marsupials
Sarcophilus
Temporal range: Pleistocene – recent |
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| The Tasmanian devil is the only living species from Sarcophilus. |
Scientific classification  |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Dasyuromorphia |
| Family: | Dasyuridae |
| Subfamily: | Dasyurinae |
| Tribe: | Dasyurini |
| Genus: | Sarcophilus
F. Cuvier, 1837 |
| Type species |
Sarcophilus harrisii
Boitard, 1841 |
| Species |
- S. harrisii
- †S. laniarius
- †S. moornaensis
- †S. prior De Vis, 1883
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Sarcophilus is a genus of carnivorous marsupial best known for its only living member, the Tasmanian devil. Sarcophilus is Latin, meaning 'flesh-loving'.
There are four species of Sarcophilus. S. laniarius and S. moornaensis are only known from fossils from the Pleistocene. S. aniarius was larger than the contemporary, and only surviving, species S. harrisii, weighing up to 10 kilograms more. The relationship between the four species is unclear; while some have proposed that S. harrisii may be a dwarf version of S. laniarius, others argue that it is a completely different species and that the two may have coexisted during the Pleistocene.
References
- Long, J., Archer, M., Flannery, T. and Hand, S. 2002. Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution. Johns Hopkins University Press. pp 55. ISBN 0-8018-7223-5.
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| Dasyurini | Dasycercus
(Mulgaras) | - Southern mulgara (D. archeri)
- Brush-tailed mulgara (D. blythi)
- Crest-tailed mulgara (D. cristicauda)
- Ampurta (D. hilleri)
- Little mulgara (D. marlowi)
- Northern mulgara (D. woolleyae
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| Dasykaluta | - Little red kaluta (D. rosamondae)
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| Dasyuroides | |
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Dasyurus
(Quolls) | - New Guinean quoll (D. albopunctatus)
- Western quoll (D. geoffroii)
- Northern quoll (D. hallucatus)
- Tiger quoll (D. maculatus)
- Bronze quoll (D. spartacus)
- Eastern quoll (D. viverrinus)
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| Myoictis | - Woolley's three-striped dasyure (M. leucura)
- Three-striped dasyure (M. melas)
- Wallace's dasyure (M. wallacii)
- Tate's three-striped dasyure (M. wavicus)
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| Neophascogale | - Speckled dasyure (N. lorentzi)
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| Parantechinus | |
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Phascolosorex
(Marsupial shrews) | - Red-bellied marsupial shrew (P. doriae)
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew (P. dorsalis)
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Pseudantechinus
(False antechinuses) | - Sandstone false antechinus (P. bilarni)
- Fat-tailed false antechinus (P. macdonnellensis)
- Alexandria false antechinus (P. mimulus)
- Ningbing false antechinus (P. ningbing)
- Rory Cooper's false antechinus (P. roryi)
- Woolley's false antechinus (P. woolleyae)
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| Sarcophilus | - Tasmanian devil (S. harrisii)
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| Phascogalini | | Antechinus | - Tropical antechinus (A. adustus)
- Agile antechinus (A. agilis)
- Fawn antechinus (A. bellus)
- Yellow-footed antechinus (A. flavipes)
- Atherton antechinus (A. godmani)
- Cinnamon antechinus (A. leo)
- Swamp antechinus (A. minimus)
- Brown antechinus (A. stuartii)
- Subtropical antechinus (A. subtropicus)
- Dusky antechinus (A. swainsonii)
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| Murexia | - Habbema dasyure (M. habbema)
- Short-furred dasyure (M. longicaudata)
- Black-tailed dasyure (M. melanurus)
- Long-nosed dasyure (M. naso)
- Broad-striped dasyure (M. rothschildi)
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| Phascogale | - Red-tailed phascogale (P. calura)
- Brush-tailed phascogale (P. tapoatafa)
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| Sminthopsini | | Antechinomys | |
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| Ningaui | - Wongai ningaui (N. ridei)
- Pilbara ningaui (N. timealeyi)
- Southern ningaui (N. yvonnae)
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Sminthopsis
(Dunnarts) | - S. crassicaudata species-group: Fat-tailed dunnart (S. crassicaudata)
- S. macroura species-group: Kakadu dunnart (S. bindi)
- Carpentarian dunnart (S. butleri)
- Julia Creek dunnart (S. douglasi)
- Stripe-faced dunnart (S. macroura)
- Red-cheeked dunnart (S. virginiae)
- S. granulipes species-group: White-tailed dunnart (S. granulipes)
- S. griseoventer species-group: Kangaroo Island dunnart (S. aitkeni)
- Boullanger Island dunnart (S. boullangerensis)
- Grey-bellied dunnart (S. griseoventer)
- S. longicaudata species-group: Long-tailed dunnart (S. longicaudata)
- S. murina species-group: Chestnut dunnart (S. archeri)
- Little long-tailed dunnart (S. dolichura)
- Sooty dunnart (S. fulginosus)
- Gilbert's dunnart (S. gilberti)
- White-footed dunnart (S. leucopus)
- Slender-tailed dunnart (S. murina)
- S. psammophila species-group: Hairy-footed dunnart (S. hirtipes)
- Ooldea dunnart (S. ooldea)
- Sandhill dunnart (S. psammophila)
- Lesser hairy-footed dunnart (S. youngsoni)
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| Planigalini | | Planigale | - Paucident planigale (P. gilesi)
- Long-tailed planigale (P. ingrami)
- Common planigale (P. maculata)
- New Guinean planigale (P. novaeguineae)
- Narrow-nosed planigale (P. tenuirostris)
- Orange-headed Pilbara planigale (P. kendricki)
- Cracking-clay Pilbara planigale (P. tealei)
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