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Query, Mountain Brush-tailed Possum

To: Philip Veerman <>
Subject: Query, Mountain Brush-tailed Possum
From: Richard Allen via Canberrabirds <>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2023 07:39:26 +0000


Canberra nature map lists 7 sightings for ACT for Trichosurus cunninghami. 

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On 10 Jul 2023, at 4:28 pm, Philip Veerman <> wrote:



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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Sent: Monday, 10 July, 2023 3:39 PM
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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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