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Thylacine | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Unrecognized taxon (fix): | Thylacinus |
Species: | †T. cynocephalus |
Binomial name | |
Thylacinus cynocephalus (Harris, 1808) | |
Historic Thylacine range in Tasmania | |
Synonyms | |
List Didelphis cynocephala Harris, 1808 Dasyurus cynocephalus Geoffroy, 1810 Thylacinus harrisii Temminck, 1824 Dasyurus lucocephalus Grant, 1831 Thylacinus striatus Warlow, 1833 Thylacinus communis Anon., 1859 Thylacinus breviceps Krefft, 1868 |
The thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) is an extinct species of mammal. It was a carnivorous marsupial animal. The Thylacine was also known as Tasmanian tiger, Tasmanian wolf and Tasmanian hyena. The last known Thylacine died in a Hobart zoo on 7 September 1936. They once lived across Australia and New Guinea. There are paintings of the animals in the north of Western Australia, and in the Northern Territory. At Riversleigh in north Queensland, scientists have discovered the fossil bones of thylacines that are at least 30 million years old.
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