Notes on the Devil (Sarcophilus harrisi) and the Quoll (
Dasyurus viverrinus) in North-Eastern Tasmania.
Uniformity in relative proportions among skull, axial skeleton, and limbs is maintained across the larger carnivorous marsupials (Keast 1982), and on skull dimensions
Dasyurus, Sarcophilus, and Thylacinus group together, distinct from the families of eutherian carnivores (Werdelin 1986).
Relatively complete developmental series of five eutherians, Mus musculus (Rodentia), Felis domestica (Carnivora), Sus scrofa (Artiodactyla), Manis javanica (Pholidota), and Tupaia javanica (Scandentia), and four metatherians, Monodelphis domestica (Didelphidae), Macropus eugenii (Macropodidae),
Dasyurus viverrinus (Dasyuridae), and Perameles nasuta (Peramelidae) were examined.
Parasites of the carnivorous marsupial
Dasyurus geoffroii and the influence of translocation.--Honours thesis, Murdoch Univ.
To test our hypotheses, we studied plant selection, dry matter digestibility (DMD), and energy relations in three gerbilline rodents (Muridae: Gerbillinae; Wilson and Reeder 1993): Henleyi's gerbil (Gerbillus henleyi; body mass 8-12 g), one of the smallest rodent species; the rock gerbil (Gerbillus
dasyurus; body mass 20-33 g); and the fat jird (Meriones crassus; body mass 50-110 g).
Spencer's terms for them were, respectively, Dromaeus minor; Phascolomys ursinus; and
Dasyurus bowlingi (Spencer and Kershaw 1910).
Diet of a native carnivore, the spotted-tailed quoll (
Dasyurus maculatus), before and after an intense fire.
It is surrounded by a predator-barrier fence and contains a variety of mammals including the eastern barred bandicoot, southern brown bandicoot Isoodon obesulus, long-nosed potoroo Potorous tridactylus, rufous bettong Aepyprymnus rufescens, Tasmanian pademelon, eastern grey kangaroo, swamp wallaby Wallabia bicolor, common brushtail possum Trichosurus vulpecula and eastern quoll
Dasyurus viverrinus.
La frecuencia de los tipos de cambios observados, difieren de lo evidenciado en otros mamiferos con fuertes tendencias carnivoras, como el marsupial
Dasyurus albopunctatus (Flores et al., 2006).
While five medium-sized mammals were recorded, those not identified were the water rat (Hydromys chrysogaster), Southern Brown Bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus), Eastern Barred Bandicoot (Perameles gunnii), Tasmanian Bettong (Bettongia gaimardi), Long-nosed Potoroo (Potorous tridactylus), and the Spotted-tailed Quoll (
Dasyurus maculatus).
Although Koolan 2 contains identified remains of Sarcophilus, Thylacine and
Dasyurus hallucatus (Northern Quoll), the bone assemblage is much less reduced than that from Serpent's Glen, Puntutjarpa or Intitjikula.
Acomys cahirinus C Acomys russatus C Eliomys melanurus C Gerbillus
dasyurus G Gerbillus gerbillus G Gerbillus henleyi G Jaculus jaculus G/F Meriones crassus G/F Mus musculus O Psammomys obesus F Sekeetamys calurus G/F
