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Family Dasyuridae Goldfuss, 1820. Handb. Zool., 11:447. COMMENTS: Some authors include Thylacinidae and Myrmecobiidae in this family; see Vaughan (1978:39); but also see Ride (1964b), Archer and Kirsch (1977), Kirsch and Calaby (1977:15), and Archer (1982) who retained these families. Revised by Tate (1947).

Published as part of Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Dasyuromorphia, pp. 29-37 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 29, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353066