Side-tracked: unique evidence for passage of foetuses through the lateral vaginal canals in a dasyurid marsupial, Sminthopsis douglasi
P. A. Woolley A C and C. H. Tyndale-Biscoe B
+ Author Affiliations
- Author Affiliations
A Department of Ecology, Environment and Evolution, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Vic. 3086, Australia.
B 114 Grayson Street, Hackett, ACT 2602, Australia.
C Corresponding author. Email: p.woolley@latrobe.edu.au
Australian Mammalogy 39(1) 115-117 https://doi.org/10.1071/AM16025
Submitted: 26 May 2016 Accepted: 4 July 2016 Published: 29 July 2016
Abstract
An abnormal female reproductive tract of the dasyurid marsupial Sminthopsis douglasi is described, which provides unequivocal evidence for parturition through the lateral vaginae of this female.
Additional keywords: median vaginal cul-de-sac, parturition, pseudo-vaginal canal, ureter.
References
Flynn, T. T. (1923). Photograph illustrating method of parturition in Potorous tridactylus exhibited at meeting of the Linnean Society of New South Wales on 27 September 1922. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 47, xxviii.Hill, J. P. (1899). Contributions to the morphology and development of the female urogenital organs in Marsupialia. I. On the female urogenital organs of Perameles with an account of the phenomenon of parturition. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 24, 42–82.
| Contributions to the morphology and development of the female urogenital organs in Marsupialia. I. On the female urogenital organs of Perameles with an account of the phenomenon of parturition.Crossref | GoogleScholarGoogle Scholar |
Pearson, J. (1945). The female urogenital system of the Marsupialia with special reference to the vaginal complex. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1944, 71–98.
Sharman, G. B. (1965). Marsupials and the evolution of viviparity. Viewpoints in Biology 4, 1–28.
Tyndale-Biscoe, C. H. (1966). The marsupial birth canal. Symposium of the Zoological Society of London 15, 233–255.
Tyndale-Biscoe, H. (2005). ‘Life of Marsupials.’ (CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne) Available at: http://www.publish.csiro.au/pid/4781.htm [accessed 19 July 2016].
Tyndale-Biscoe, C. H., and Renfree, M. B. (1987). ‘Reproductive Physiology of Marsupials.’ (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.) Available at: http://www.cambridge.org/au/academic/subjects/life-sciences/zoology/reproductive-physiology-marsupials [accessed 19 July 2016].
Woolley, P. A. (1990). Reproduction in Sminthopsis macroura (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) 1. The female. Australian Journal of Zoology 38, 187–205.
| Reproduction in Sminthopsis macroura (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) 1. The female.Crossref | GoogleScholarGoogle Scholar |
Woolley, P. A. (2015). The Julia Creek dunnart Sminthopsis douglasi (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae): breeding of a threatened species in captivity and in wild populations. Australian Journal of Zoology 63, 411–423.
| The Julia Creek dunnart Sminthopsis douglasi (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae): breeding of a threatened species in captivity and in wild populations.Crossref | GoogleScholarGoogle Scholar |
