The Tasmanian devil is the only living species from Sarcophilus.
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Infraclass:
Marsupialia
Order:
Dasyuromorphia
Family:
Dasyuridae
Subfamily:
Dasyurinae
Tribe:
Dasyurini
Genus:
Sarcophilus F. Cuvier, 1837
Type species
Sarcophilus harrisii
Boitard, 1841
Species
S. harrisii
†S. laniarius
†S. moornaensis
†S. prior De Vis, 1883
Sarcophilus is a genus of carnivorous marsupial best known for its only living member, the Tasmanian devil. Sarcophilus is Latin, meaning 'flesh-loving'.
There are four species of Sarcophilus. S. laniarius and S. moornaensis are only known from fossils from the Pleistocene. S. aniarius was larger than the contemporary, and only surviving, species S. harrisii, weighing up to 10 kilograms more. The relationship between the four species is unclear; while some have proposed that S. harrisii may be a dwarf version of S. laniarius, others argue that it is a completely different species and that the two may have coexisted during the Pleistocene.
Sarcophilus is a genus of carnivorous marsupial best known for its only living member, the Tasmanian devil. Sarcophilus is Latin, meaning 'flesh-loving'...
Richard Owen, but by 1877 he had relegated it to Sarcophilus. The modern Tasmanian devil was named Sarcophilus harrisii ("Harris's flesh-lover") by French...
Sarcophilus laniarius is an extinct species of large Tasmanian devil. Richard Owen originally called the specimen on which the genus was based Dasyurus...
two decades since the disease was first spotted, population of Devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) declined by 80% (locally exceeding 90%), as the condition spread...
Woolley's false antechinus, Pseudantechinus woolleyae Genus Sarcophilus Tasmanian devil, Sarcophilus harrisii Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D...
organisms perceived as having a fondness for a particular thing. Examples: Sarcophilus ("flesh-loving"); Drosophila ("dew-loving"); Anthophila ("flower-loving");...
and Steve-O are worshiping the vulture. This skit is similar to the "sarcophilus satanicus" skit from Wildboyz. Chris Pontius drinking pig semen and Dave...
marsupials have teeth of a carnassial form. Both the living Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) and the recently extinct Tasmanian wolf (Thylacinus cynocephalus)...
Retrieved 16 September 2023. "DRAFT: Recovery Plan for the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii)" (PDF). Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and...
Jones, M.E.; et al. (1997). "Body temperatures of Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) and eastern quolls (Dasyurus viverrinus) through an alpine...
giant musky rat-kangaroo) Nombe Congruus Various forms of Sarcophilus (Tasmanian devil) Sarcophilus laniarius (25% larger than modern species, unclear if...
attributed a role in disease susceptibility in the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii), native to the isolated island of Tasmania, such that an antigen...
rama Simothenurus gilli Warrendja wakefieldi, a wombat from Naracoorte Sarcophilus harrisii laniarius, a large subspecies of the Tasmanian devil. Thylacinus...
(Siphonaptera: Pygiopsyllidae) from the endangered Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii Boitard, 1841), with a review of the fleas associated with the...
Freycinet is the devil facial tumour which has seen the Tasmanian devil's (Sarcophilus harrisii) conservation status upgraded in 2008 to endangered under the...
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