AY Honors/Marsupials/Answer Key

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Template:Taxobox Quolls or native cats (genus Dasyurus) are carnivorous marsupials, native to Australia and Papua New Guinea. Adults are between 25 and 75 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. They do not have prehensile tails, but do have ridges on the pads of their feet. Their molars and canines are strongly developed.

The dasyurid family to which quolls belong also includes the Tasmanian devil, antechinuses, kowari, and mulgara.

Taxonomy

Within the genus Dasyurus, the following species exist:

Different species of quolls show little difference in body shape, though they do have distinguishing characteristics. For example, the tiger quoll can be identified by its white spots and large canines.

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