Dasyurus viverrinus (Shaw, 1800) . Gen. Zool. Syst. Nat. Hist., 1(2), Mammalia, p.491.

TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, New South Wales, Sydney .

DISTRIBUTION: Probably survives only in Tasmania; formerly South Australia, New South Wales, and Victoria (Archer, in Tyler, 1979).

STATUS: U.S. ESA - Endangered.

SYNONYMS: alboguttata, guttatus, maugei.

COMMENTS: Dasyurus quoll Zimmermann, 1777 (not Mustela quoll Zimmermann, 1783),is invalid: this work was rejected by Opinion 257 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1954a). Also the name Dasyurus maculata Anon.,1791,wa: suppressed under Article 80 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1985). "Original" name is now Didelphis viverrina Shaw, 1800 .