The subfamily Dasyurinae includes several genera of small carnivorous marsupials native to Australia: quolls, kowari, mulgara, kaluta, dibblers, phascogales, pseudantechinuses, and the Tasmanian devil. The subfamily is defined largely on biochemical criteria.
Order Dasyuromorphia
- Family Thylacinidae
- Family Dasyuridae: (carnivorous marsupials)
- Subfamily Dasyurinae:
- Tribe Dasyurini
- Mulgaras = Dasycercus spp.
- Little red kaluta = Dasykaluta rosamondae
- Kowari = Dasyuroides byrnei
- †Dasyuroides achilpatna Archer, 1982
- Quolls = Dasyurus spp.
- Some dasyures = Myoictis and Neophascogale spp.
- Dibbler = Parantechinus apicalis
- Marsupial shrews = Phascolosorex spp.
- False antechinuses = Pseudantechinus spp. (includes sandstone dibbler)
- Tasmanian devil = Sarcophilus harrisii
- Tribe Phascogalini
- Antechinuses = Antechinus spp.
- Other dasyures = Micromurexia, Murexechinus, Murexia, Paramurexia, Phascomurexia spp.
- Phascogales = Phascogale spp.
- Subfamily Sminthopsinae: dunnarts, kultarr, planigales, and ningauis
- Family Myrmecobiidae
References
- Strahan, Ronald (1995). The Mammals of Australia, Reed Books, 54