Dasyuromorphia

Dasyuromorphia Temporal range: Late Oligocene–Present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Clockwise from top left: thylacine, Tasmanian devil, numbat, fat-tailed dunnart, yellow-footed antechinus and tiger quoll
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Marsupialia
Clade:	Agreodontia
Order:	Dasyuromorphia Gill, 1872
Families
Dasyuridae Myrmecobiidae †Malleodectidae [1] †Thylacinidae

Dasyuromorphia ( /dæsijʊəroʊˈmɔːrfiə/ , from Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús) 'hairy'and οὐρά (ourá) 'tail') ^[2] is an order comprising most of the Australian carnivorous marsupials. The order contains four families: Myrmecobiidae, with just a single living species, the numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus), Thylacinidae, with one recently extinct species, the thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) and several fossil species, Dasyuridae, with 73 extant species, including quolls, dunnarts, and the Tasmanian devil, and the extinct fossil family Malleodectidae with one genus.

Description

The body size of dasyuromorphs varies considerably, from only 4 grams (0.14 oz) in long-tailed planigale, which is the smallest living marsupial, up to 35 kilograms (77 lb) in the recently extinct thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus). They show considerable morphological diversity, including the kultarr (Antechinomys laniger), which is adapted for hopping locomotion. ^[3] Members of the group are mostly carnivorous, either feeding on vertebrate prey or arthropods like insects. ^[4] The lower molar teeth of dasyuromorphs typically show a carnassial-like morphology. ^[5]

Phylogeny

Main article: List of dasyuromorphs

Overall phylogeny of Dasyuromorphia (greatly truncated) after Kealy et al. 2017: ^[3]

Dasyuromorphia	Thylacinidae † Thylacinus (thylacines) Myrmecobiidae Myrmecobius (numbat) Dasyuridae Sminthopsis (dunnarts) Phascogale (wambengers) Sarcophilus (Tasmanian devil) Dasyurus (quolls)

Upham et al. 2019 [6] [7]

Álvarez-Carretero et al. 2022 [8] [9]

Myrmecobiidae Myrmecobius (Numbats) Dasyuridae Sminthopsinae Planigale (planigales) Ningaui (ningauis) Sminthopsis [ Antechinomys ] (dunnarts, kultarrs) Dasyurinae Phascogalini Phascogale (phascogales) Murexia Antechinus (antechinuses) Dasyurini Pseudantechinus (False antechinus) Dasyuroides (kowari) Dasykaluta (little red kaluta) Dasycercus (mulgara) Parantechinus (dibblers) Pseudantechinus ningbing Myoictis (Three-striped dasyure) Neophascogale (speckled dasyure) Phascolosorex (marsupial shrews) Dasyurus [ Sarcophilus ] (quolls) (20 genera, 72 species)

Myrmecobiidae Myrmecobius Dasyuridae Sminthopsinae Planigale Sminthopsis species-group 1 Sminthopsis species-group 2 Sminthopsis species-group 3 [ Antechinomys ] Ningaui Dasyurinae Phascogalini Antechinus Phascogale Murexia Dasyurini Neophascogale Phascolosorex Dasyurus [ Sarcophilus ] Pseudantechinus Dasycercus Dasyuroides Dasykaluta Parantechinus Myoictis

See also

• List of mammal genera
• List of recently extinct mammals
• List of prehistoric mammals

References

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2. Mammalian Lexicon
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4. Tarquini, Sergio D.; Chemisquy, M. Amelia; Prevosti, Francisco J. (March 2020). "Evolution of the Carnassial in Living Mammalian Carnivores (Carnivora, Didelphimorphia, Dasyuromorphia): Diet, Phylogeny, and Allometry" . Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 27 (1): 95–109. doi:10.1007/s10914-018-9448-7. ISSN   1064-7554.
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8. Álvarez-Carretero, Sandra; Tamuri, Asif U.; Battini, Matteo; Nascimento, Fabrícia F.; Carlisle, Emily; Asher, Robert J.; Yang, Ziheng; Donoghue, Philip C.J.; dos Reis, Mario (2022). "A species-level timeline of mammal evolution integrating phylogenomic data". Nature. 602 (7896): 263–267. Bibcode:2022Natur.602..263A. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04341-1. hdl: 1983/de841853-d57b-40d9-876f-9bfcf7253f12 . PMID   34937052.
9. Álvarez-Carretero, Sandra; Tamuri, Asif U.; Battini, Matteo; Nascimento, Fabrícia F.; Carlisle, Emily; Asher, Robert J.; Yang, Ziheng; Donoghue, Philip C.J.; dos Reis, Mario (2022). "4705sp_colours_mammal-time.tree". Nature. 602 (7896): 263–267. Bibcode:2022Natur.602..263A. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04341-1. hdl: 1983/de841853-d57b-40d9-876f-9bfcf7253f12 . PMID   34937052.

• Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 23–37. ISBN   0-801-88221-4. OCLC   62265494.

External links

• Dasyuromorphia on Animal Diversity Web