Dasyurinae

Dasyurinae
Tiger quoll
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Marsupialia
Order:	Dasyuromorphia
Family:	Dasyuridae
Subfamily:	Dasyurinae Goldfuss, 1820
Tribes
Dasyurini - 10 genera Phascogalini - 7 genera

The subfamily Dasyurinae is a group of small meat-eating marsupials that live in Australia. This group includes quolls, kowari, mulgara, kaluta, dibblers, phascogales, pseudantechinuses, and the Tasmanian devil. Scientists mainly use chemical tests to decide which animals belong to this group.

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

• Groves, Colin (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 24–32. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
• Strahan, Ronald (1995). The Mammals of Australia, Reed Books, 54