Spotted-tailed quoll
Dasyurus maculatus
Family Dasyuridae
About
The spotted-tailed quoll (also called tiger quoll) is the world's second-largest living carnivorous marsupial after the Tasmanian devil, a nocturnal hunter of eastern Australia's wetter forests. Unlike other quoll species its white spots continue onto the tail, and its bite is the second-most powerful relative to body size of any living mammal carnivore.
How to spot it
Larger and more elongated than other quolls, with reddish-brown fur covered in white spots that run all the way down the tail — the tail-spots are the single best field mark to separate it from the eastern quoll. Found in wetter forest and rainforest, generally above 600 m in higher-rainfall country; almost entirely nocturnal and solitary.
Found in
- Barrington Tops National Park
- Girraween National Park
- New England National Park
Source: Wikipedia; IUCN Red List
Photo: pimelea (CC BY 4.0) via Wikimedia Commons