Carnivorous Marsupials: Order Dasyuromorphia

The Order Dasyuromorphia comprises most carnivorous marsupials such as the quolls, dunnarts, the Numbat and the Tasmanian Devil.  It also includes the recently extinct Thylacine.

Classification of the Three Families

Dasyuridae (Quolls, Kowari, Mulgara, Little Red Kaluta, Dibblers, Phascogales, antechinuses, Tasmanian Devils) - total 72 species.
Thylacinidae (Extinct Tasmanian Tiger) - recently extinct
Myrmecobiidae (Numbat) - 1 species