3 Mountain Brushtail Possum, Southern Bobuck at Cotter River, ACT
Identification history
| Trichosurus cunninghami | 8 Oct 2022 | jks | ||
| Trichosurus caninus | 5 May 2019 | DonFletcher | ||
| Trichosurus caninus | 5 May 2019 | MichaelBedingfield | ||
| Unidentified | 5 May 2019 | TyrieStarrs |
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User's notes
I believe Mountain Brushtail Possum . Can anyone confirm?
1 comment
DonFletcher
wrote:
5 May 2019
I need to raise this with Micheal M but our 'Mountain Brushtail' might be the T. cunninghami, not the T. caninus species. (The latter is not listed as occurring here under Possums and Gliders.) Also we might do better to change the common name to Southern Bobuck.
Location information
- Coordinates 148.842044-35.359656
- Maps Lower Cotter Catchment
- Places Cotter River, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 20 Apr 2019 10:37 PM Recorded on
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Species information
- Trichosurus cunninghami Scientific name
- Mountain Brushtail Possum, Southern Bobuck Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 120m Recorded at altitude
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