Dasyurus geoffroii Gould, 1841 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1840: 151 [1841].

TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, New South Wales, Liverpool Plains .

DISTRIBUTION: Western Australia; formerly in South Australia, Northern Territory, S Queensland, W New South Wales, and NW Victoria (Archer, in Tyler, 1979; Waithman, 1979).

STATUS: Rare.

SYNONYMS: fortis.

COMMENTS: Formerly included in Dasyurinus . The New Guinea records of this species actually refer to D. spartacus .