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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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Synonyms:

    exilis Thomas, 1909
    nesaeus Thomas, 1926
    predator Thomas, 1926
    quoll (Zimmermann, 1783)

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