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| − | {{Taxobox
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| − | | color = pink
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| − | | name = Quolls
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| − | | image = SpottedQuoll_2005_SeanMcClean.jpg
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| − | | image_width = 200px
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| − | | image_caption = [[Tiger Quoll]]
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| − | | regnum = [[Animal]]ia
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| − | | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]]
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| − | | classis = [[Mammal]]ia
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| − | | infraclassis = [[Marsupialia]]
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| − | | ordo = [[Dasyuromorphia]]
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| − | | familia = [[Dasyuridae]]
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| − | | subfamilia = [[Dasyurinae]]
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| − | | tribus = [[Dasyurini]]
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| − | | genus = '''''Dasyurus'''''
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| − | | genus_authority = [[Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire|É. Geoffroy]], 1796
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| − | | type_species = ''[[Eastern Quoll|Didelphis maculata]]''
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| − | | type_species_authority = [[anonymous|Anon.]], [[1791]]<br>(= ''Didelphis viverrina'' [[George Shaw|Shaw]], 1800
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| − | | subdivision_ranks = [[Species]]
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| − | See text.
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| − | }}
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| − | '''Quolls''' or '''native cats''' (genus '''''Dasyurus''''') are [[carnivorous]] [[marsupial]]s, native to [[Australia]] and [[Papua New Guinea]]. Adults are between 25 and 75 [[Centimeter|cm]] long, with hairy tails about 20-35 cm long. Females have six to eight nipples and develop a pouch—which opens towards the tail—only during the breeding season, when they are rearing young. The babies are the size of a grain of rice. Quolls live both in forests and in open valley land. Though primarily ground-dwelling, they have developed secondary arboreal characteristics. Their molars and canines are strongly developed.
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| − | == Taxonomy ==
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| − | Within the genus ''Dasyurus'', the following species exist:
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| − | * [[New Guinean Quoll]], ''Dasyurus albopunctatus'', New Guinea
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| − | * [[Western Quoll]] or Chuditch, ''Dasyurus geoffroii'', western Australia
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| − | * [[Northern Quoll]], ''Dasyurus hallucatus'', northern Australia
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| − | * [[Tiger Quoll]] or Spotted Quoll, ''Dasyurus maculatus'', eastern Australia
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| − | * [[Bronze Quoll]], ''Dasyurus spartacus'', New Guinea
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| − | * [[Eastern Quoll]], ''Dasyurus viverrinus'', [[Tasmania]] (formerly mainland eastern Australia)
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| − | note: accompanying photo is mislabeled as a "tiger" Quoll--should read "a 'spotted' Quoll".
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| − | ==References==
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| − | *{{MSW3 Groves|pages=24-25}}
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| − | [[Category:Dasyuromorphs]]
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| − | [[Category:Australian Aboriginal terms]]
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| − | [[Category:Mammals of Australia]]
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| − | [[de:Beutelmarder]]
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| − | [[fr:Dasyurus]]
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| − | [[nl:Buidelmarters]]
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| − | [[pl:Dasyurus]]
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| − | [[pt:Quoll]]
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| − | [[ru:Сумчатая куница]]
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