Dasyurus
Translingual
editEtymology
editNew Latin, from Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús, “hairy, shaggy, dense”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”)
Proper noun
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- A taxonomic genus within the family Dasyuridae – quolls of Australia and New Guinea.
Hypernyms
edit- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – subclass; Metatheria – infraclass; Dasyuromorphia – order; Dasyuridae – family; Dasyurinae - subfamily; Dasyurini - tribe
Hyponyms
edit- (genus): Dasyurus maculatus (tiger quoll, spot-tailed quoll) - type species; Dasyurus albopunctatus (New Guinea quoll), Dasyurus geoffroii (western quoll, chuditch), Dasyurus hallucatus (northern quoll), Dasyurus spartacus (bronze quoll), Dasyurus viverrinus (eastern quoll), †Dasyurus dunmalli - other species
References
edit- Dasyurus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Dasyurus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Dasyurus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons