Dasyurus E. Geoffroy 1796

Dasyurus E. Geoffroy 1796, Mag. Encyclop., ser. 2, 3: 469.

Type Species: Didelphis maculata Anon. 1791

Synonyms: Dasyurinus Matschie 1916; Dasyurops Matschie 1916; Nasira Harvey 1841; Notoctonus Pocock 1926; Satanellus Pocock 1926; Stictophonus Pocock 1926 .

Species and subspecies: 6 species:

Species Dasyurus albopunctatus Schlegel 1880

Species Dasyurus geoffroii Gould 1840

Species Dasyurus hallucatus Gould 1842

Species Dasyurus maculatus (Kerr 1792)

Species Dasyurus spartacus Van Dyck 1987

Species Dasyurus viverrinus Shaw 1800

Discussion: See Haltenorth (1958:20). Archer (1982) revived Satanellus (for albopunctatus and hallucatus), as he considered that the remaining species might belong in a clade with Sarcophilus; but Krajewski et al. (1997 a), using molecular data, confirmed that Dasyurus is monophyletic.