Are Queensland brush-tailed phascogales different?
M. C. Edwards
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School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland, Gatton, Qld 4343, Australia. Email: megan.edwards@uqconnect.edu.au
Australian Mammalogy 40(2) 297-300 https://doi.org/10.1071/AM17025
Submitted: 6 April 2017 Accepted: 20 July 2017 Published: 8 August 2017
Abstract
Little is known about the basic biology of brush-tailed phascogales, Phascogale tapoatafa, in southern Queensland. Wild-caught phascogales, and museum and veterinary records were examined. Queensland phascogales are smaller than Victorian phascogales, but larger than Western Australian animals of the same subspecies.
Additional keywords: body mass, Dasyuridae, morphology, marsupial.
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