The species Mountain Brush-tailed Possum (also called bobuck) Trichosurus caninus was certainly known as a species separate (from the Common Brushtail Possum),
in the 1970s, indeed well before then. My oldest book on the subject: Brazenor 1950. “The mammals of Victoria” lists it as its own species. As do all the relevant books since then. I don’t know if they occur in our region. We might be too far west. They look
rather different and in a good view, not too hard to tell apart. I used to see them a lot in the 1970s, when La Trobe Uni zoology department did a lot of work with marsupials.
Philip
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Subject: [Canberrabirds] Query, Mountain Brush-tailed Possum
I've only just caught up to the fact that this is now considered a separate sp.
Would any BT possums you see along Wark's Road, say, be this sp?
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