Trichosurus cunninghami

3 Mountain Brushtail Possum, Southern Bobuck at Cotter River, ACT

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Identification history

Trichosurus cunninghami	8 Oct 2022	jks
Trichosurus caninus	5 May 2019	DonFletcher
Trichosurus caninus	5 May 2019	MichaelBedingfield
Unverified	5 May 2019	TyrieStarrs

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I believe Mountain Brushtail Possum . Can anyone confirm?

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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.

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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 485m Recorded at altitude
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Australian Capital Territory

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