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Sarcophilus

释义

References

{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = Pleistocene - recent
| image = Tasdevil_large.jpg
| image_caption = The Tasmanian devil is the only living species from Sarcophilus
| taxon = Sarcophilus
| authority = F.G. Cuvier, 1837
| type_species = Sarcophilus laniarius
| type_species_authority = Owen, 1838
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =

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.

There are four species of Sarcophilus. S. laniarius and S. moornaensis are only known from fossils from the Pleistocene. S. laniarius 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.

References

Long, J., Archer, M., Flannery, T. and Hand, S. 2002. Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution. Johns Hopkins University Press. pp 55. {{ISBN|0-8018-7223-5}}.

4 : Dasyuromorphs|Marsupial genera|Extant Pleistocene first appearances|Taxa named by Frédéric Cuvier

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