Dasyurus hallucatus Gould, 1842 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1842:41.

TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Northern Territory, Port Essington .

DISTRIBUTION: Australia: N Northern Territory, N and NE Queensland, and N Western Australia.

STATUS: Common.

SYNONYMS: exilis, nesaeus, predator.

COMMENTS: Sometimes assigned to Satanellus . The original name Mustela quoll Zimmermann, 1783, was suppressed under Article 80 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1985), now correctly Dasyurus hallucatus .