thylacine
A carnivorous marsupial (†Thylacinus cynocephalus) which was native to Tasmania, now extinct.
[…]high up on an overhanging rock, perhaps twenty feet above the ground, a ghostly white thylacine was clearly visible. Thylacines, or Tasmanian tigers, have been extinct on the mainland of Australia for at least two thousand years.
Where it comes from
From translingual Thylacinus; from Ancient Greek θύλακος (thúlakos, “pouch, sack”) + Latin -inus (-ine).
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry thylacine (CC BY-SA 4.0).