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--> ORDER DASYUROMORPHIA
--> FAMILY Dasyuridae
--> SUBFAMILY Dasyurinae
--> TRIBE Dasyurini
--> GENUS Dasyurus
SPECIES Dasyurus hallucatus
Author: | Gould, 1842. | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1842: 41. | Common Name: | Northern Quoll | Type Locality: | Australia, Northern Territory, Port Essington. | Distribution: | Australia: N Northern Territory, N and NE Queensland, and N Western Australia. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). Common. | Comments: | Sometimes assigned to Satanellus. The original name Mustela quoll Zimmermann, 1783, was suppressed under Article 80 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1999), now correctly Dasyurus hallucatus. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
exilis Thomas, 1909 nesaeus Thomas, 1926 predator Thomas, 1926 quoll (Zimmermann, 1783)
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