Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Da yake gaskanta cewa nau'in opossum ne, masanin halitta George Harris ya rubuta bayanin farko da aka buga game da Tasmanian shaidan a 1807, yana mai suna Didelphis ursina, saboda halaye irin na bera kamar kunne mai zagaye. A baya ya yi gabatarwa a kan batun a Zoological Society of London. Koyaya, George Shaw ya ba da wannan sunan binomial na musamman ga wombat na yau da kullun (daga baya aka sake rarraba shi azaman Vombatus ursinus) a cikin 1800, kuma saboda haka babu shi. A shekara ta 1838, Richard Owen ya ba da sunan samfurin Dasyurus laniarius, amma a shekara ta 1877 ya sake shi zuwa Sarcophilus. Sarcophilus harrisii ("Harris's flesh-lover") wanda masanin kimiyyar halitta na Faransa Pierre Boitard ya yi a 1841. Wani bita na baya na harajin shaidan, wanda aka buga a 1987, ya yi ƙoƙari ya canza sunan jinsin zuwa Sarcophilus laniarius bisa ga burbushin burbushin halittu na 'yan dabbobi kaɗan kawai. Duk da haka, wannan ba a karɓa ba ta hanyar al'umma ta al'umma; sunan S. harrisii an riƙe shi kuma S. laniarius ya koma wani nau'in burbushin halittu. "Beelzebub's pup" wani sunan farko ne da masu binciken Tasmania suka ba shi, dangane da wani adadi na addini wanda shi ne sarkin jahannama kuma mataimakin Shaidan; masu binciken sun fara haɗuwa da dabba ta hanyar jin muryoyinsa masu nisa a cikin dare. Sunaye masu alaƙa da aka yi amfani da su a ƙarni na 19 sune Sarcophilus satanicus ("Shaidan mai son nama") da Diabolus ursinus ("shaidan bear"), duk saboda kuskuren tunanin farko na shaidan a matsayin mummunan mugunta. Shaidan Tasmanian (Sarcophilus harrisii) na dangin Dasyuridae ne. Nau'in Sarcophilus ya ƙunshi wasu nau'ikan guda biyu, waɗanda aka sani kawai daga burbushin Pleistocene: S. laniarius da S. moomaensis. Nazarin phylogenetic ya nuna cewa Tasmanian shaidan yana da alaƙa sosai da quolls.  Tambaya: Menene sunan Tasmanian Iblis na zamani
Sarcophilus harrisii