Dasyuridae Goldfuss, 1820

Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Dasyuromorphia, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 29-37 : 29

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scientific name	Dasyuridae Goldfuss, 1820
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Family Dasyuridae Goldfuss, 1820 View in CoL . Handb. Zool., 11:447.

COMMENTS: Some authors include Thylacinidae and Myrmecobiidae in this family; see Vaughan (1978:39); but also see Ride (1964b), Archer and Kirsch (1977), Kirsch and Calaby (1977:15), and Archer (1982) who retained these families. Revised by Tate (1947).

References

Archer, M., and J. A. W. Kirsch. 1977. The case for the Thylacomyidae and Myrmecobiidae, Gill, 1872, or why are marsupial families so extended. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 102: 18 - 25.

Archer, M. 1982. Review of the dasyurid (Marsupialia) fossil record, integration of data bearing on phylogenetic interpretation, and suprageneric classification. Pp. 397 - 443, in Carnivorous Marsupials (M. Archer, ed). Royal Society of New South Wales, Syndey, 2: 1 - 804.

Kirsch, J. A. W., and J. H. Calaby. 1977. The species of living marsupials: An annotated list. Pp. 9 - 26, in The biology of marsupials (B. Stonehouse and D. Gilmore, eds.). University Park Press, Baltimore, 486 pp.

Ride, W. D. L. 1964 b. A review of Australian fossil marsupials. Journal Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 47: 97 - 131.

Tate, G. H. H. 1947. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 56. On the anatomy and classification of the Dasyuridae (Marsupialia). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 88: 102 - 155.

Vaughan, T. A. 1978. Mammalogy. Second ed. W. B. Saunders, Philadelphia, PA, 522 pp.