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Sarcophilus F. Cuvier 1837

Description

Sarcophilus F. Cuvier, 1837

Didelphis Harris, 1808:176. Part (Didelphis ursina Harris, 1808).

Sarcophilus F. Cuvier in É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. Cuvier 1837: unnumbered pages associated with plate 113, vol. 4, tome 7, livr. 70.

Type species Didelphis ursina Harris, 1808, by monotypy.

Dasyurus Owen in Mitchell, 1838:363, plate 49, figures 3 and 4. Part (Dasyurus laniarius Owen, 1838).

Diabolus J. E. Gray in G. Grey, 1841:400, Appendix C. Type species Didelphis ursina Harris, 1808, by monotypy.

Ursinus Boitard, 1842:290.

Type species Ursinus harrisii Boitard, 1842 (= Didelphis ursina Harris, 1808), by monotypy.

CONTENT AND CONTEXT. Order Dasyuromorphia, family Dasyuridae,

subfamily Dasyurinae, tribe Dasyurini. Sarcophilus is monotypic.

Notes

Published as part of Rose, Robert K., Pemberton, David A., Mooney, Nick J. & Jones, Menna E., 2017, Sarcophilus harrisii (Dasyuromorphia: Dasyuridae), pp. 1-17 in Mammalian Species 49 (942) on page 1, DOI: 10.1093/mspecies/sex001, http://zenodo.org/record/4573410

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Dasyuridae
Genus
Sarcophilus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Dasyuromorphia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
F. Cuvier
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Sarcophilus Cuvier, 1837 sec. Rose, Pemberton, Mooney & Jones, 2017

References

  • HARRIS, G. P. 1808. Description of two new species of Didelphis from Van Diemen's Land. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 9: 174 - 178.
  • OWEN, R. 1838. in T. L. Mitchell, Three expeditions into the interior of eastern Australia, with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix and of the present colony of New South Wales. T & W. Boone, London, United Kingdom.
  • GREY, G. 1841. Journals of two expeditions of discovery in north-west and western Australia, during the years 1837, 38, and 39, under the authority of Her Majesty's Government, describing many newly discovered, important, and fertile districts with observations on the moral and physical condition of the Aboriginal inhabitants, & c. & c. T. and W. Boone, London, United Kingdom.
  • BOITARD, P. 1842. Le Jardin des Plantes description et moeurs des mammiferes de la Menagerie et du museum d'Histoire Naturelle precede d'une introduction historique, descriptive et pittoresque par M. J. Janin. Gustave Barba, Paris, France.