Richard Owen originally called the specimen on which the genus was based " Dasyurus laniarus ".
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The image depicts a Spotted quoll " ( Dasyurus maculatus ) ", Australia's largest carnivorous marsupial.
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For example, the tiger quoll ( " Dasyurus maculatus " ) is a dasyurid marsupial native to Australia.
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It was a carnivore, probably eating small vertebrates and insects, as living " Dasyurus " species do today.
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The spotted tail quoll ( Dasyurus maculatus ) is in serious decline due to habitat loss, competition from predators, and poisoning from humans.
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Very little is known of it; it was previously thought to be an outlying population of the western quoll ( " Dasyurus geoffroii " ).
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Since other animals at Riversleigh were rainforest species, it is possible that " B . turnbulli " was arboreal, like " Dasyurus maculatus ".
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The chuditch ( " Dasyurus geoffroi " ) or western quoll, is one of four quoll species in Australia and is the largest marsupial predator in Western Australia.
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The largest is the bronze quoll ( " Dasyurus spartacus " ), a rare quoll, first discovered in southern New Guinea in 1979 . It reaches a snout to vent length of 36 centimetres ( 14.2 in ).
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A rare, and possibly the last, chuditch or western quoll ( " Dasyurus geoffroii " ), an endangered carnivorous marsupial not seen in the Perth area for nearly twenty years, was caught by a rabbit trap in Wandi in March 2009.
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