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Dasyuridae

noun
1.
Dasyures; native cats; pouched mice; banded anteaters; Tasmanian devils.  Synonyms: family Dasyuridae, family Dasyurinae.






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"Dasyuridae" Quotes from Famous Books



... invertebrate inhabitants of Australia and of South America of a kind which makes the existence of a direct land connection in the Southern Hemisphere extremely probable. Moreover, Ameghino has recently described some marsupial fossils from South America which, he states, belong to the Australian group of Dasyuridae, and Oldfield Thomas has described a new mammal from South America which is unlike the opossums of America and like the diprotodonts of Australia. So that, while the general opinion has been against Huxley's division, Notogaea, in the strict meaning which he gave to it, there has recently been ...
— Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work • P. Chalmers Mitchell



Words linked to "Dasyuridae" :   genus Myrmecobius, genus Thylacinus, dasyurid, genus Sarcophilus, Sarcophilus, order Marsupialia, family Dasyuridae, Thylacinus, dasyurid marsupial, Myrmecobius, Phascogale, Dasyurus, genus Phascogale, family Dasyurinae, mammal family, Marsupialia, genus Dasyurus



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