[a. F. thylacine, in mod.L. Thȳlacīnus (Temminck, Monogr. de Mammalogie, 1827, I. 55), f. Gr. θύλακ-ος pouch + (app.) L. suffix- īnus, -INE1. (But some think that Temminck meant to include in the name Gr. κύων, κῠνός dog, and that it is short for *thȳlaco-cynus ‘pouched dog,’ which is improbable. It had been previously described by Harris as Didelphys cynocephalus.)] The native Tasmanian ‘wolf’ or ‘zebra-wolf,’ Thylacinus cynocephalus, the largest of existing carnivorous marsupials (now very scarce).
1838. Owen, in Proc. Geol. Soc., III. 19. In the number of the grinders the Phascolothere resembles the Opossum and Thylacine.
1841. G. R. Waterhouse, Marsupialia, 127. The Thylacinus inhabits Van Diemen’s Land where it is called the Tiger, Hyæna.
1846. Owen, Brit. Fossil Mammals, 67.
1891. Daily News, 5 May, 5/5. The Zoological Society have just acquired a pair of thylacines—a somewhat rare, carnivorous marsupial, from Tasmania.
1901. Pall Mall G., 27 May, 5/3. The thylacine is confined to Tasmania, although its fossil remains have been found in New South Wales.
