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Tasmanian wolf

Thylacine
Temporal range: Early Pliocene-Recent
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Thylacines in Washington D.C., c. 1906

Extinct  (1936) (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Dasyuromorphia
Family: Thylacinidae
Genus: Thylacinus
Species: T. cynocephalus
Binomial name
Thylacinus cynocephalus
(Harris, 1808)
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Historic Thylacine range in Tasmania
Synonyms

The thylacine (/ˈθləsn/ THY-lə-seen, or /ˈθləsn/ THY-lə-syne, also /ˈθləsn/;binomial name: Thylacinus cynocephalus, Greek for "dog-headed pouched one") was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times. It is commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger (because of its striped lower back) or the Tasmanian wolf. Native to continental Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea, it is believed to have become extinct in the 20th century. It was the last extant member of its family, Thylacinidae; specimens of other members of the family have been found in the fossil record dating back to the late Oligocene.


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