AY Honors/Marsupials/Answer Key

Quolls Template:StatusVulnerable
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Template:Regnum: Animalia Template:Phylum: Chordata Template:Classis: Mammalia Template:Subclassis: Marsupialia Template:Ordo: Dasyuromorphia Template:Familia: Dasyuridae Template:Genus: Dasyurus

Quolls (genus Dasyurus) are carnivorous marsupials native to Australia and Papua New Guinea.

Taxonomy

Within the genus Dasyurus, the following species exist:

• Dasyurus albopunctatus — New Guinean Quoll, New Guinea
• Dasyurus geoffroii — Chuditch or Western Quoll, western Australia
• Dasyurus hallucatus — Northern Quoll, northern Australia
• Dasyurus maculatus — Spotted Quoll, eastern Australia
• Dasyurus spartacus — Bronze Quoll, New Guinea
• Dasyurus viverrinus — Eastern Quoll, Tasmania