DASYURE

dăsˈēyoorˌ, name for several small, predatory marsupials, or pouched mammals, of the family Dasyuridea, found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. Typical dasyures, known in Australia as native cats, are furry animals with large eyes, pointed snouts, and long tails. The largest are the size of house cats; most are somewhat smaller. They are variously colored, and most species are spotted. Dasyures hunt by night and are able to climb trees. Once found all over Australia, they are now extinct in many regions. They are not related to true cats. The fierce Tasmanian devil is a large, atypical dasyure. Dasyures are classified in several genera of the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Marsupialia, family Dasyuridae.

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Wild Animals in and out of the Zoo
Book by William M. Mann; Smithsonian Institution, 1930
Subjects: Animal Behavior
...Crowned crane, East African, 238 Crows, 258 Cuban tree boa, 267 Cunninghams skink, 265 Curassow, 1 , 10 , 15 , 243 , 244 D Dasyure, 217 Dealers, animal, 8 Deer, 60 , 183 - 201 Desert tortoise, 273 Diamond rattlesnake, 267 , 276 Diana monkey, 43...
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From the Frontier: Outback Letters to Baldwin Spencer
Book by John Mulvaney, Alison Petch, Howard Morphy, Michael Patrick Byrne; Allen & Unwin, 2000
Subjects: Anthropologists--Australia--Correspondence, Australia--Description And Travel, Australian Aborigines--Australia--Central Australia--Social Life And Customs, Biologists--Australia--Correspondence, Byrne, Patrick Michael--1856-1932--Correspondence, Cowle, Charles Ernest--1863-1922--Correspondence, Frontier And Pioneer Life--Australia--Central Australia, Natural History--Australia--Central Australia, Pioneers--Australia--Correspondence, Scientific Expeditions--Australia--Central Australia, Spencer, Baldwin--Sir--1860-1929--Correspondence
...luck, to me they appear exactly alike but she has a name for each. Sometime ago I saw or caught a glimpse of a spotted cat Dasyure Charlotte Waters Chilpa, 131 Looritcha Coonincher, and have been offering a shirt for one. All the blacks know him but have...
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Organic Evolution
Book by Richard Swann Lull; Macmillan, 1926
Subjects: Evolution
...moderate to large claws, and relatively defenseless. Order Monotremata. Entire order. Order Marsupialia. Wombat Phascolomys . Dasyure Dasyurus . Kangaroo-rat Bettongia . Pig-footed bandicoot Choeropus . Marsupial mole Notoryctes . Order Edentata. Armadillos...
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Composition of Scientific Words: A Manual of Methods and a Lexicon of Materials for the Practice of Logotechnics
Book by Roland Wilbur Brown; Smithsonian Institution Press, 1956
Subjects: English Language--Foreign Elements--Greek, English Language--Foreign Elements--Latin, English Language--Word Formation--Glossaries, Vocabularies, Etc, Science--Terminology
...mink: Mustela vison mink . L. viverra, f. ferret: viverrine, Viverra megaspila a civet-cat , Dasyurus viverrinus dasyure . weather < AS. weder. Gr. aithria, clear weather, open sky; mixaithria, changeable weather; see aithrios under clear...
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Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones, and Geological Catastrophes: New Translations & Interpretations of the Primary Texts
Book by M. J. S. Rudwick, George Cuvier; University of Chicago Press, 1997
Subjects: Catastrophes (Geology), Geology--History--18th Century, Mammals, Fossil
...258 -59; portraits, 2 , 14 , 75 , 256 Dacier, Bon-Josephe, 112n Dalmatia, 56 , 159 Darwin, Charles, xi , 179 n dasyure, 70 , 72 , 208 , 229 Daubenton, Louis, 16 , 36 , 42 , 47 , 57 , 116 Daubuisson. See Aubuisson Daubin, Henri, 271 Dauphine...
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Dasyure
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DASYURE das eyoor , name for several...and New Guinea. Typical dasyures, known in Australia as...most species are spotted. Dasyures hunt by night and are able...devil is a large, atypical dasyure. Dasyures are classified in several...
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Marsupial
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...there are animals known as Tasmanian wolves (see thylacine ), marsupial moles, marsupial mice, and native cats (see dasyure ), which live very much like the correspondingly named placental mammals and, in many cases, are strikingly similar in appearance...
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Tasmanian Devil
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TASMANIAN DEVIL extremely voracious marsupial , or pouched mammal, of the dasyure family, now found only on the island of Tasmania. The Tasmanian devil, Sarcophilus harrisi, formerly found also in Australia...


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