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Depending on the species, adult quolls can be 25 to 75 cm (9.8 to 29.5 in) long, with hairy tails about 20 to 35 cm (7.9 to 13.8 in) long. Average weight differs greatly depending on the species; male western and eastern quolls weigh about 1.3 kg (2.9 lb) and females 0.9 kg (2.0 lb). The spotted-tailed quoll is the largest, with the male ...
Species in Dasyuromorphia; clockwise from top left: thylacine, Tasmanian devil, numbat, fat-tailed dunnart, yellow-footed antechinus and tiger quoll Dasyuromorphia is an order of mammals comprising most of the Australian carnivorous marsupials.
Northern quoll, (Dasyurus hallucatus) Subgenus Dasyurops. Tiger quoll, (Dasyurus maculatus) Subgenus Dasyurinus. Western quoll, (Dasyurus geoffroii) Subgenus Dasyurus. New Guinean quoll, (Dasyurus albopunctatus) Bronze quoll, (Dasyurus spartacus) Eastern quoll, (Dasyurus viverrinus) Genus Myoictis. Woolley's three-striped dasyure (Myoictis leucera)
The smallest species is the Pilbara ningaui, which is from 4.6 to 5.7 cm (1.8 to 2.2 in) in length, and weighs just 2 to 9 g (0.07 to 0.3 oz), while the largest, the Tasmanian devil, is 57 to 65 cm (22 to 26 in) long, and weighs from 6 to 8 kg (13 to 18 lb). The smaller dasyurids typically resemble shrews or mice in appearance, with long tails ...
Dasyuromorphia (/ d æ s i j ʊər oʊ ˈ m ɔːr f i ə /, meaning "hairy tail" [2] in Greek) is an order comprising most of the Australian carnivorous marsupials, including quolls, dunnarts, the numbat, the Tasmanian devil, and the extinct thylacine.
The western quoll is a member of the family Dasyuridae and is most closely related to the bronze quoll (Dasyurus spartacus), a recently described species from New Guinea that was for some time believed to be an outlying population of the western quoll. Its species name, geoffroii, refers to the prominent French naturalist Étienne Geoffroy ...
The eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus, formerly known as the eastern native cat) is a medium-sized carnivorous marsupial , and one of six extant species of quolls. Endemic to Australia, they occur on the island state of Tasmania , but were considered extinct on the mainland after 1963. [ 4 ]
The tiger quoll is listed by the IUCN on the Red List of Threatened Species with the status "near threatened". [2] As of 2023 [update] , since its listing in 2004 under the EPBC Act , the Tasmanian population of Dasyurus maculatus maculatus is regarded as a vulnerable species , [ 32 ] while the Queensland population of Dasyurus maculatus ...