Species profile—Dasyurus maculatus maculatus (spotted-tailed quoll (southern subspecies))
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Dasyuridae (dasyurids) → Dasyurus maculatus maculatus (spotted-tailed quoll (southern subspecies))
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Family
- Dasyuridae (dasyurids)
- Scientific name
- Dasyurus maculatus maculatus (Kerr, 1792)
- Common name
- spotted-tailed quoll (southern subspecies)
- Type reference
- Kerr, R. (1792). The Animal Kingdom, a zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus; Class 1. Mammalia: containing a complete systematic description, arrangement and nomenclature, of all known species and varieties of Mammalia; or animals that give suck to their young; being a translation of that part of the Systeme Naturae, as lateley published with great improvements, by Professor Gmelin of Goettingen. London: J.Murray & R Faulder Vol. 1 Pt 1 xl 400pp.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 803
- Alternate name(s)
- tiger cat
spot-tail quoll
yarri
spotted-tail dasyure
spotted-tailed native cat
tiger quoll - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Vulnerable
- Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC) status
- Endangered
- Back on Track (BoT) status
- High
- Conservation significant
- Yes
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Agricultural Pest
- Map
- View Map
Other resources
Species Profile and Threats Database (SPRAT) Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living AustraliaData source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=803
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
