The order contains four families: one with just a single living species (the numbat), two with only extinct species (including the thylacine and Malleodectes), and one, the Dasyuridae, with 73 extant species.
Unlike herbivores, which tend to become highly specialized for particular ecological niches and diversify greatly in form, carnivores tend to be broadly similar to one another, certainly on the level of gross external form. Just as Northern Hemisphere carnivores like cats, mongooses, foxes and weasels are much more alike in structure than, for example, camels, goats, pigs and giraffes, so too are the marsupial predators constrained to retain general-purpose, look-alike forms—forms which mirror those of placental carnivores. The names given to them by early European settlers reflect this: the thylacine was called the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolves, quolls were called native cats or native foxes, and so on.
The primary specialisation among marsupial predators is that of size: prior to the massive environmental changes that came about with the arrival of humans about 50,000 years ago, there were several very large carnivores, none of them members of the Dasyuromorphia and all of them now extinct. Those that survived into historical times ranged from the wolf-sized thylacine to the tiny long-tailed planigale which at 4 to 6 grams is less than half the size of a mouse. Most, however, tend towards the lower end of the size scale, typically between about 15 or 20 grams and about 2 kilograms, or from the size of a domestic mouse to that of a small domestic cat.
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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Dasyuromorphia news newspapers books scholar JSTOR August 2020 Learn how and when to remove this template message Dasyuromorphia d ae s i j ʊer oʊ ˈ m ɔːr f i e meaning hairy tail 2 in Greek is an order comprising most of the Australian carnivorous marsupials including quolls dunnarts the numbat the Tasmanian devil and the extinct thylacine In Australia the exceptions include the omnivorous bandicoots order Peramelemorphia and the marsupial moles which eat meat but are very different and are now accorded an order of their own Notoryctemorphia Numerous South American species of marsupials orders Didelphimorphia Paucituberculata and Microbiotheria are also carnivorous as were some extinct members of the order Diprotodontia including extinct kangaroos such as Ekaltadeta and Propleopus and thylacoleonids and some members of the partially extinct clade Metatheria and all members of the extinct superorder Sparassodonta DasyuromorphiaTemporal range Late Oligocene Present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg NClockwise from top left thylacine Tasmanian devil numbat fat tailed dunnart yellow footed antechinus and tiger quollScientific classificationDomain EukaryotaKingdom AnimaliaPhylum ChordataClass MammaliaInfraclass MarsupialiaClade AgreodontiaOrder DasyuromorphiaGill 1872FamiliesDasyuridae Malleodectidae 1 Myrmecobiidae ThylacinidaeThe order contains four families one with just a single living species the numbat two with only extinct species including the thylacine and Malleodectes and one the Dasyuridae with 73 extant species Contents 1 Characteristics 2 Phylogeny 3 See also 4 References 5 External linksCharacteristics editUnlike herbivores which tend to become highly specialized for particular ecological niches and diversify greatly in form carnivores tend to be broadly similar to one another certainly on the level of gross external form Just as Northern Hemisphere carnivores like cats mongooses foxes and weasels are much more alike in structure than for example camels goats pigs and giraffes so too are the marsupial predators constrained to retain general purpose look alike forms forms which mirror those of placental carnivores The names given to them by early European settlers reflect this the thylacine was called the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolves quolls were called native cats or native foxes and so on The primary specialisation among marsupial predators is that of size prior to the massive environmental changes that came about with the arrival of humans about 50 000 years ago there were several very large carnivores none of them members of the Dasyuromorphia and all of them now extinct Those that survived into historical times ranged from the wolf sized thylacine to the tiny long tailed planigale which at 4 to 6 grams is less than half the size of a mouse Most however tend towards the lower end of the size scale typically between about 15 or 20 grams and about 2 kilograms or from the size of a domestic mouse to that of a small domestic cat Phylogeny editMain article List of dasyuromorphs Upham et al 2019 3 4 Alvarez Carretero et al 2022 5 6 Myrmecobiidae Myrmecobius Numbats Dasyuridae Sminthopsinae Planigale planigales Ningaui ningauis Sminthopsis Antechinomys dunnarts kultarrs Dasyurinae Phascogalini Phascogale phascogales MurexiaAntechinus antechinuses Dasyurini Pseudantechinus False antechinus Dasyuroides kowari Dasykaluta little red kaluta Dasycercus mulgara Parantechinus dibblers Pseudantechinus ningbingMyoictis Three striped dasyure Neophascogale speckled dasyure Phascolosorex marsupial shrews Dasyurus Sarcophilus quolls 20 genera 72 species Myrmecobiidae MyrmecobiusDasyuridae Sminthopsinae PlanigaleSminthopsis species group 1Sminthopsis species group 2Sminthopsis species group 3 Antechinomys NingauiDasyurinae Phascogalini AntechinusPhascogaleMurexiaDasyurini NeophascogalePhascolosorexDasyurus Sarcophilus PseudantechinusDasycercusDasyuroidesDasykalutaParantechinusMyoictisSee also editList of mammal genera List of recently extinct mammals List of prehistoric mammalsReferences edit Archer M Hand S J Black K H Beck R M D Arena D A Wilson L A B Kealy S Hung T t 2016 05 27 A new family of bizarre durophagous carnivorous marsupials from Miocene deposits in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area northwestern Queensland Scientific Reports 6 26911 Bibcode 2016NatSR 626911A doi 10 1038 srep26911 ISSN 2045 2322 PMC 4882580 PMID 27229325 Mammalian Lexicon Upham Nathan S Esselstyn Jacob A Jetz Walter 2019 Inferring the mammal tree Species level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology evolution and conservation PLOS Biol 17 12 e3000494 doi 10 1371 journal pbio 3000494 PMC 6892540 PMID 31800571 Upham Nathan S Esselstyn Jacob A Jetz Walter 2019 DR on4phylosCompared linear richCol justScale ownColors withTips 80in PDF PLOS Biology 17 12 doi 10 1371 journal pbio 3000494 Alvarez Carretero Sandra Tamuri Asif U Battini Matteo Nascimento Fabricia F Carlisle Emily Asher Robert J Yang Ziheng Donoghue Philip C J dos Reis Mario 2022 A species level timeline of mammal evolution integrating phylogenomic data Nature 602 7896 263 267 doi 10 1038 s41586 021 04341 1 hdl 1983 de841853 d57b 40d9 876f 9bfcf7253f12 Alvarez Carretero Sandra Tamuri Asif U Battini Matteo Nascimento Fabricia F Carlisle Emily Asher Robert J Yang Ziheng Donoghue Philip C J dos Reis Mario 2022 4705sp colours mammal time tree Nature 602 263 267 doi 10 1038 s41586 021 04341 1 hdl 1983 de841853 d57b 40d9 876f 9bfcf7253f12 Groves C P 2005 Wilson D E Reeder D M eds Mammal Species of the World A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference 3rd ed Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press pp 23 37 ISBN 0 801 88221 4 OCLC 62265494 External links editDasyuromorphia on Animal Diversity Web Portal nbsp Mammals Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php 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