DASYUROMORPHIA, Gill, 1872

Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Dasyuromorphia, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 29-37 : 29

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ORDER DASYUROMORPHIA View in CoL

SYNONYMS: Dasyuroidea, Dasyuriformes.

COMMENTS: Recognized as an order by Aplin and Archer (1987) who proposed a new syncretic classification of the marsupials. Includes the Australian component of Marsupicarnivora (see Ride, 1964b).

Aplin, K. P., and M. Archer. 1987. Recent advances in marsupial systematics with a new syncretic classification. Pp. xv-lxxii, in Possums and opossums: Studies in evolution (M. Archer, ed.). Surrey Beatty and Sons Pty. Ltd. and Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Sydney, 1: 1 - 400.

Ride, W. D. L. 1964 b. A review of Australian fossil marsupials. Journal Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 47: 97 - 131.