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Dasyurids
Order : Dasyuromorphia
Family : Dasyuridae
Facts about the family Dasyuridae, the dasyurids
Dasyurids are a branch of the marsupial order Dasyuromorphia, which also includes the thylacinids and myrmecobiids.
crassicaudata (Marsupialia Dasyuridae) is a mouse-sized nocturnal marsupial, widely but patchily distributed across
The largest member of the family Dasyuridae is the ______________. (Full text)
Dasyurids The dasyurids are found throughout Australia, Tasmania (Full text)
Most (5) dasyurids are small, insect-eating mammals, but this group also includes a few carnivore marsupials. (Full text)
Most (5) dasyurids are small, insect-eating mammals, but this group also includes a few carnivore marsupials. (Full text)
The Dasyurids are also known as the marsupial carnivores, since the members of the family eat other animals. (Full text)
Several species of dasyurids are endangered and at least one, the Tasmanian Tiger, has disappeared forever since Europeans arrived in Australia. (Full text)
This is probably the result of the fact that, unlike kangaroos and possums, the dasyurids are very rarely seen, for on the whole they are small, fast and generally nocturnal in habit. (Full text)
There's no animal that looks like this - blue or otherwise - although I could believe it's some sort of Dasyurid species (Dasyuridae is the family to which the Tassie Devil belongs, it includes quolls and most of the animals commonly called marsupial mice). (Full text)
I could believe it's some sort of Dasyurid species (Dasyuridae is the family to which the Tassie Devil belongs, it includes quolls and most of the animals commonly called marsupial mice). (Full text)
The northern quoll, Dasyurus hallucatus (family Dasyuridae) is commonly referred to locally as "native cat. (Full text)
Earlier authorities such as Le Souef and Burrell (1926), and Troughton (1967) categorized it with the Dasyuridae partly because dasyurids are the only carnivorous, polyprotodont, didactylous group to occur in Australia. (Full text)
(12), according to which dasyurids are more closely related to diprotodontians, Dromiciops, and Notoryctes than to peramelinans. (Full text)
(references)Non-English Usage: "Dasyuridae" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. (Full text)