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<tr><th align="center" bgcolor=pink>'''Quolls'''<br>{{StatusVulnerable}}</th></tr>

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<tr><td>{{Regnum}}:</td><td>[[Animal]]ia</td>
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<tr><td>{{Phylum}}:</td><td>[[Chordate|Chordata]]
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<tr><td>{{Classis}}:</td><td>[[Mammal]]ia</td></tr>
<tr><td>{{Subclassis}}:</td><td>[[Marsupialia]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>{{Ordo}}:</td><td>[[Dasyuromorphia]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>{{Familia}}: </td><td>[[Dasyuridae]] </td>
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<tr><td>{{Genus}}: </td>
<td>'''''[[Dasyurus]]'''''</td></tr>
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'''Quolls''' (genus ''Dasyurus'') are [[carnivorous]] [[marsupial]]s, native to [[Australia]] and [[Papua New Guinea]]. Adults are between 25 and 75 [[Centimeter|cm]] long, with hairy tails about 20-35 cm long. Females have six to eight nipples and develop a pouch—which opens towards the tail—only during the breeding season, when they are rearing young. Quolls live both in forests and in open valley land. Though primarily ground-dwelling, they have developed secondary arboreal characteristics. Their molars and canines are strongly developed.

== Taxonomy ==

Within the genus ''Dasyurus'', the following species exist:
*''[[Dasyurus albopunctatus]]'' — New Guinean Quoll, New Guinea
*''[[Dasyurus geoffroii]]'' — Chuditch or Western Quoll, western Australia
*''[[Northern quoll|Dasyurus hallucatus]]'' — Northern Quoll, northern Australia
*''[[Dasyurus maculatus]]'' — Spotted Quoll (Tiger Quoll), eastern Australia
*''[[Dasyurus spartacus]]'' — Bronze Quoll, New Guinea
*''[[Dasyurus viverrinus]]'' — Eastern Quoll, [[Tasmania]]

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