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Taxon: Genus Dasyurus Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1796 - native "cats", tiger "cats" (mammal)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1796
Original name:  Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, É. 1796:469.
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Original spelling: 

Types

Type of: Dasyurini (Tribe) Goldfuss, 1820
Type of: Dasyuromorphia (Grandorder) Gill, 1872 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 55. [new] [inferred]
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]: Dasyurus (Subgenus) E. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, 1796
Type, by original designation: Dasyurus maculata (Anon., 1791), nom. rej.
Type, by synonymy: Dasyurus viverrinus (Shaw, 1800)

Variants

Different rank: Dasyurus (Subgenus) E. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, 1796

Synonyms

Synonymous name: Satanellus (Genus) Pocock, 1926 Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991
Including: Dasyurinus (Subgenus) Matschie, 1916
Including: Dasyurops (Subgenus) Matschie, 1916
Including: Satanellus (Subgenus) {Pocock, 1926}

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full name: gevlekte buidelmarters

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: native "cats", tiger "cats"
: quolls Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991
: marsupial cats Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991
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