Guide to the galleries of mammals in the Department of Zoology of the British Museum.

  • British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology.
Date:
1914
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Guide to the galleries of mammals in the Department of Zoology of the British Museum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THYLACYNE. the Long-nosed Bandicoot, nasuta (1465), of New Guinea ; the Long-eared Rabbit-Bandicoot, Peragale lagotis (1468), of Western Australia; and the little Pig-footed Bandicoot, Chceropus castanotis (1467), an animal somewhat resembling a Rat, but with fore-feet recalling those of a Pig. Allied to the Bandicoots are the carnivorous Dasyuridce^ in [Case 70.] which the feet are of the ordinary type, with five toes on the fore and four on the hind pair. Fig. 60. The Pouched Wolf, or Thylacyne {Tkylacynus cynocephalus). The JJasyuridcB are the most highly developed carnivorous Marsupials, representing in this order the Carnivora of the placental series. The largest is the Thylacyne or Pouched Wolf, Thylacynus cynocephalus (1484, fig. 60), the skull of which strikingly resembles that of one of the Dog tribe. Its dentition is I. f, C. P. + M. f = 46, the teeth being sharp and cutting, and well suited to its predatory habits. The feet are like those of a Wolf, and the marsupial bones are represented by cartilages. Externally the Thylacyne is remarkably like a striped Wolf. For a long time it was the bane of the
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