called also Native Wolf, Marsupial Wolf and Zebra Wolf, TasmanianTiger and Hyaena; genus, Thylacinus (q.v.).It is the largest carnivorous marsupial extant, and is so muchlike a wolf in appearance that it well deserves its vernacularname of Wolf, though now-a-days it is generally called Tiger. See Tasmanian Tiger.
1891. `Guide to Zoological Gardens, Melbourne':
«The first occupants we notice in this cage are two marsupialwolves, Thylacinus cynocephalus, or Tasmanian tigers asthey are commonly called. These animals are becoming scarce,as, owing to their destructiveness among sheep, they arerelentlessly persecuted by run-holders.»