Tiger quoll

Gestation lasts 21 days, with 1 litter per year of 4.47 young, and sexual maturity is reached at 1 year. Checklists record it in Australia, and the IUCN lists it as Near Threatened, which is not a threatened category.

Weight

1.78 kg – 5.5 kgsrc for Weight

Length

Not recorded

Lifespan

5 yearssrc for Lifespan

Diet

Carnivoresrc for Diet

Longest recorded lifespan

6.8 years

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

Not recorded

Gestation

21 dayssrc for Gestation

Young per litter or clutch

4.47 – 5.3src for Young per litter or clutch

Age at maturity

11.2 months – 12 monthssrc for Age at maturity

Litters or clutches a year

1src for Litters or clutches a year

Active

At night (nocturnal)src for Active

Lifestyle

Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle

Conservation status

Near Threatened (IUCN)src for Conservation status

Countries on record

1 countrysrc for Countries on record

The tiger quoll is listed for 1 country.

The same countries as a list

1. Australia

Listed by: ITIS (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.

The tiger quoll is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List: it is close to qualifying as threatened.

1. LCLeast Concern
2. NTNear Threatened
3. VUVulnerable
4. ENEndangered
5. CRCritically Endangered
6. EWExtinct in the Wild
7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Near Threatened species.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classMammalia
4. orderDasyuromorphia
5. familyDasyuridae
6. genusDasyurus
7. SpeciesDasyurus maculatus (Kerr, 1792)

Synonyms Viverra maculata

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

EN, Endangered

Eastern quoll

Dasyurus viverrinus

Dasyuridae

NT, Near Threatened

Western quoll

Dasyurus geoffroii

Dasyuridae

EN, Endangered

Northern quoll

Dasyurus hallucatus

Dasyuridae

NT, Near Threatened

New Guinean quoll

Dasyurus albopunctatus

Dasyuridae

NT, Near Threatened

B

Bronze quoll

Dasyurus spartacus

DasyuridaeNo free photo yet

D

Dasyurus lucocephalus

DasyuridaeNo free photo yet

CompareTiger quoll vs Eastern quollTiger quoll vs Western quollTiger quoll vs Northern quollTiger quoll vs New Guinean quoll

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@misc{tiger_quoll_2026,
  title = {Tiger quoll (Dasyurus maculatus)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/tiger-quoll},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}