Order Dasyuromorphia Author Colin P. Groves text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 29 37 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353066 1-56098-217-9 7353066 Dasyurus hallucatus Gould, 1842 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1842:41 . TYPE LOCALITY: Australia , Northern Territory , Port Essington . DISTRIBUTION: Australia : N Northern Territory , N and NE Queensland , and N Western Australia . STATUS: Common. SYNONYMS: exilis, nesaeus, predator. COMMENTS: Sometimes assigned to Satanellus . The original name Mustela quoll Zimmermann, 1783 , was suppressed under Article 80 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1985), now correctly Dasyurus hallucatus .