Tiger Quoll
Dasyurus maculatus
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 582
- Most observed in
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- Conservation
- Near Threatened
Description
The tiger quoll (Dasyurus maculatus), also known as the spotted-tailed quoll, spotted quoll, spotted-tailed dasyure, or tiger cat, is a carnivorous marsupial of the quoll genus Dasyurus native to Australia. With males and females weighing around 3.5 and 1.8 kg (7.7 and 4.0 lb), respectively, it is the world's second-largest extant carnivorous marsupial, behind the Tasmanian devil. Two subspecies are recognised; the nominate is found in wet forests of southeastern Australia and Tasmania, and a northern subspecies, D.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Tiger quoll”.