Myoictis
Myoictis[1] | |
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Myoictis wallacii
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Dasyuromorphia |
Family: | Dasyuridae |
Subfamily: | Dasyurinae |
Tribe: | Dasyurini |
Genus: | Myoictis J. E. Gray, 1858 |
Type species | |
Myoictis wallacii
, 1858 | |
Species | |
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Myoictis or striped dasyure is a genus of marsupials in the order Dasyuromorphia. It is found in New Guinea.
There are four species:
- Woolley's three-striped dasyure, Myoictis leucura
- Three-striped dasyure, Myoictis melas
- Wallace's dasyure, Myoictis wallacii
- Tate's three-striped dasyure, Myoictis wavicus
The taxonomy for the species was difficult for most biologists to understand. Woolley proposed the names of the four different species by recognizing the animal by the morphological differences. While also using
Each of the four species were found to have significant physical differences between them.
Between 1894 and 1895,
References
- OCLC 62265494.
Woolley, P. 2008. Myoictis leucura. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T136449A4293240.
.Woolley, P. 2005. Revision of the Three-striped dasyures, genus myoictis (marsupialia: dasyuridae), of New Guinea, with description of a new species.
Donnellan, S., Krajewski, C., Westerman, M., Woolley, P., Young, J., 2006. Molecular Relationships of New Guinean three-striped dasyures, (Myoictis, Marsupialia: Dasyuridae)