Dasyuridae - Dasyurids

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Kultarr - Antechinomys laniger
The kultarr is found in Northern Australia, Western Australia, and New South Wales.
Source: Animal Diversity Web   Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Kultarr - Antechinomys laniger
The kultar has large ears, long legs, and a long tail with a tuft of fur on the end.
Source: New South Wales Government  Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Agile Antechinus - Antechinus agilis
The agile antechinus is found in Australia.
Source: Atlas of Living Australia  Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Yellow-footed Antechinus - Antechinus flavipes
The yellow-footed antechinus is found in Australia.
Source: Brain Museum  Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Yellow-footed Antechinus - Antechinus flavipes
The yellow-footed antechinus is the siz of a small rat.
Source: Queensland Government  Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Brown Antechinus - Antechinus stuartii
The brown antechinus is found in Australia.
Source: Australian Museum  Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Brown Antechinus - Antechinus stuartii
The brown antechinus male has a lifespan of around a year. It dies a month after mating.
Source: BBC  Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Brown Antechinus - Antechinus stuartii
The brown antechinus is found in forests with dense ground cover and lots of fallen trees that it can use for nests.
Source: Animal Diversity Web   Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Subtropical Antechinus - Antechinus subtropicus
The subtropical antechinus is found in forests on the coast from southeastern Queensland to northeastern New South Wales, Australia.
Source: Queensland Museum  Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Dusky Antechinus - Antechinus swainsonii
The dusky antechinus is found in southeastern Australia, including on the island of Tasmania.
Source: Animal Diversity Web   Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Dusky Antechinus - Antechinus swainsonii
The dusky antechinus locates its prey by smell.
Source: Museum Victoria  Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Dusky Antechinus - Antechinus swainsonii
The dusky antechinus is nocturnal.
Source: Tazmania Online  Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Crest-tailed Mulgara - Dasycercus cristicauda
The crest-tailed mulgara is found  in the inland deserts of central Australia.
Source: Arkive   Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Crest-tailed Mulgara - Dasycercus cristicauda
The crest-tailed mulgara lives in borrows in the sand.
Source: Animal Diversity Web   Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Kowari - Dasyuroides byrnei
The Kowari is found in southeastern Queensland and northern South Australia in Australia.
Source: Queensland Government   Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Kowari - Dasyuroides byrnei
The Kowari looks like a rat. It has a pointed snout and a bushy black tip on its tail.
Source: Arkive   Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Kowari - Dasyuroides byrnei
The Kowari is found in grasslands and deserts.
Source: Konica Minolta   Intended Audience: Students Reading Level: Elementary School

Kowari - Dasyuroides byrnei
The Kowari is mostly nocturnal, but it can be active in the early morning.
Source: Animal Diversity Web   Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

New Guinea Quoll - Dasyurus albopunctatus
The New Guinea quoll is foundin Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Source: Arkive   Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Western Quoll - Dasyurus geoffroii
The western quoll is found in southwestern Western Australia in Australia.
Source: Animal Diversity Web   Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Western Quoll - Dasyurus geoffroii
The western quoll was once found across most of Australia.
Source: Western Springs Desert Park   Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Western Quoll - Dasyurus geoffroii
The western quoll is also known as the chuditch.
Source: Perth Zoo   Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Western Quoll - Dasyurus geoffroii
The western quoll is solitary and nocturnal.
Source: Arkive  Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Northern Quoll - Dasyurus hallucatus
The northern quoll is found along the northern Australian coast.
Source: Animal Diversity Web   Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Northern Quoll - Dasyurus hallucatus
Male northern quolls usually die after their first mating season.
Source: Arkive  Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Northern Quoll - Dasyurus hallucatus
The northern quoll is the smallest quoll species. It is the size of a small cat.
Source: Perth Zoo  Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Northern Quoll - Dasyurus hallucatus
The northern quoll is threatened by cane toads.
Source: ABC News, Australia Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Northern Quoll - Dasyurus hallucatus
The northern quoll is also called the northern Australian native cat, northern native cat, satanellus, and njanmak. 
Source: Wildlife Queensland   Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Northern Quoll - Dasyurus hallucatus
The northern quoll was once found across much of northern Australia.
Source: Territory Wildlife Park   Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Spotted-tailed Quoll - Dasyurus maculatus
The spotted-tailed quoll is found along the eastern Australian coast from Queensland to Victoria. It is also found in Tasmania.
Source: Animal Diversity Web   Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Spotted-tailed Quoll - Dasyurus maculatus
The spotted-tailed quoll is the largest species of quoll.
Source: Arkive   Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Spotted-tailed Quoll - Dasyurus maculatus
The spotted-tailed quoll is solitary and nocturanl.
Source: Tasmania Online  Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Spotted-tailed Quoll - Dasyurus maculatus
The spotted-tailed quoll is an opportunistic predator and scavenger.
Source: Wildlife Queensland   Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Eastern Quoll - Dasyurus viverrinus
The eastern quoll is found in Tasmania.
Source: Arkive   Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Eastern Quoll - Dasyurus viverrinus
Eastern Quolls live in rainforests, woodlands, and closed forests.
Source: Animal Diversity Web   Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Eastern Quoll - Dasyurus viverrinus
The eastern quoll can be sandy brown, brown, or black with white spots.
Source: Tasmania Online  Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Eastern Quoll - Dasyurus viverrinus
The eastern quoll was once found on mainland Australia.
Source: Australian Geographic  Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section:No

Wallace's Three-striped Dasyure - Myoictis wallacei
Wallace's three-striped dasyure is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Source: Arkive   Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Southern Ningaui - Ningaui yvonneae
The southern ningaui is found in semi-arid regions of southern Australia.
Source: New South Wales Government  Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Southern Ningaui - Ningaui yvonneae
The southern ningaui is nocturnal and preys on arthropods and small lizards.
Source: Animal Diversity Web   Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Dibbler - Parantechinus apicalis
The dibbler is found in Western Australia, Australia.
Source: Arkive   Intended Audience: Genera l Reading Level: Middle School

Northern Brush-tailed Phascogale - Phascogale pirata
The northern brush-tailed phascogale is found in the Northern Territory, Queensland, and Western Australia in Australia.
Source: Animal Diversity Web   Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Brush-tailed Phascogale - Phascogale tapoatafa
The brush-tailed phascogale is found along the coast in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, Australia and along the coast in Western Australia, Australia.
Source: Arkive   Intended Audience: Genera l Reading Level: Middle School

Common Planigale - Planigale maculata
The common planigale is found in northern Western Australia, Northern Territory, and eastern Queensland..
Source: Arkive   Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Narrow-nosed Planigale - Planigale tenuirostris
The narrow-nosed planigale is found in the interior of eastern Australia.
Source: Animal Diversity Web   Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Carpentarian Pseudantechinus - Pseudantechinus mimulus
The Carpentarian pseudantechinus is found in the Northern Territory and in Queensland, Australia.
Source: Arkive   Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Rory's Pseudantechinus - Pseudantechinus roryi
Rory's pseudantechinus is found in Western Australia, Australia.
Source: Arkive   Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Tasmanian Devil - Sarcophilus harrisii
The Tasmanian devil is found in Tasmania.
Source: Animal Diversity Web   Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Tasmanian Devil - Sarcophilus harrisii
The Tasmanian devil is the largest carnivorous  marsupial.
Source: Arkive  Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Tasmanian Devil - Sarcophilus harrisii
The Tasmanian devil was once found on mainland Australia.
Source: Tasmania Park and Wildlife Service  Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Tasmanian Devil - Sarcophilus harrisii
The Tasmanian devil lets loose with blood-curdling screeches and snarls when it feels threatened or when it is fights over food.
Source: National Geographic   Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School

Tasmanian Devil - Sarcophilus harrisii
The Tasmanian devil can travel up to ten miles every night in search of food.
Source: San Diego Zoo   Intended Audience: Students Reading Level: Middle School

Tasmanian Devil - Sarcophilus harrisii
Facial cancer has cut the number of Tasmanian devils in the wild by 60% in the last few years.
Source: BBC   Intended Audience: Students Reading Level: Middle School

Fat-tailed Dunnart - Sminthopsis crassicaudata
The fat-tailed dunnart is nocturnal.
Source: Animal Diversity Web   Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School