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Sarcophilus (Tasmanian devil)

Synonyms: Sacrophius

Wikipedia Abstract

Sarcophilus is a genus of carnivorous marsupial best known for its only living member, the Tasmanian devil. There are three 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 three 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.
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Species

Sarcophilus harris
Sarcophilus harrisii (Tasmanian Devil) (Endangered) (Attributes)
Sarcophilus laniarius (Tasmanian Devil) (Attributes)
Sarcophilus moornaensis
Sarcophilus satanicus

External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0