This name is no longer considered valid, and the second part of the name is now given to a different species, the tiger quoll, " Dasyurus maculatus ", while the eastern quoll was renamed " Dasyurus viverrinus " by George Shaw in 1800.
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This name is no longer considered valid, and the second part of the name is now given to a different species, the tiger quoll, " Dasyurus maculatus ", while the eastern quoll was renamed " Dasyurus viverrinus " by George Shaw in 1800.
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The swamp antechinus was first described in 1803 ( the first of all the antechinuses ) by �tienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, who placed it in the genus " Dasyurus " ( quolls ), hence its species name " minimus ", which means " smallest ".
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The "'bronze quoll "'( " Dasyurus spartacus " ) is a species of quoll found only in the Trans Fly savanna and grasslands of New Guinea and West Papua . there are twelve public museum specimens, 8 from traps and 4 from local hunters.
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Some of the mammals found in the Great Western Woodlands region include the greater long-eared bat ( " Nyctophilus timoriensis " ), western brush wallaby ( " Macropus irma " ), red-tailed phascogale ( " Phascogale calura " ), and the western quoll or chuditch ( " Dasyurus geoffroii " ).
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Other commonly encountered animals in this habitat include : Native honeybees, wallaroos ( " Macropus robustus " ), common echidnas ( " Tachyglossus aculeatus " ) as well as other far rarer species such as the koala ( " Phascolarctos cinereus " ), the dingo ( " Canis lupus dingo " ) or the predatory native marsupial the spotted quoll ( " Dasyurus maculatus spp . maculatus " ).
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The most frequently encountered of the Gorge's frogs are the tusked frog ( " Adelotus brevis " ), the striped marsh frog ( " Limnodynastes peronii " ), and the cane toad ( " Dasyurus Hallucatus " ) . freshwater turtles such as Kreffts river turtle ( " Emydura " " krefftii " ) and the saw-shelled turtle ( " Elseya " " latisternum " ) are in strong numbers in Carnarvon Creek, commonly seen sunning themselves on rocks and logs during the middle of the day.
