Perameles nasuta
8 Long-nosed Bandicoot at Booth, ACT
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| Perameles nasuta | MichaelMulvaney | 29 Mar 2022 | |
| Unverified | heatherb1997 | 24 Mar 2022 |
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Significant sighting
MichaelMulvaney noted:
29 Mar 2022
This is a new recorded location for this species, which is rare in the ACT. The nearest other recorded location in in the middle of the Orroral Valley. Perhaps one species that is benefiting from a post-fire habitat?
4 comments
24 Mar 2022
Hi Heather, First, we can be sure this is no macropod, possum, glider nor exotic mammal. So that narrows the possibilities a lot. What is the scale here? Is that a cork tile 30cm square? Its easier to identify stuff from camera trap pics when you are going through the full set so you know already what some of the species look like - how big an antechinus looks, and a BTP, etc. If my first guess at scale is right, this would be an animal about the size of a ring-tailed possum, rather than a small mammal, but my first impression is often wrong. So if the tile is 30cm, maybe its a bandicoot, but if so the head must have been foreshortened somehow because the snout is too short for either SBB or LNB. First pic was at midnight, 2nd at 2am and third 12 sec later, suggesting there may be more photos - is that the case? A bandicoot's tail is about one third of head-body length, so either this is something else completely (eg Antechinus if I got the scale wrong) or head body is foreshortened a bit.
29 Mar 2022
Hi Heatherb1997, I have now been able to look at this on a much better monitor and I think it is Perameles nasuta, a Long Nosed Bandicoot. That is a significant record (first in this area) but would have been much more so if you had found the elusive SBBs.
I'd be very interested to hear more about your study if you are Ok w that. Email don.fletcher@emailme.com.au or mobile 0428 48 9990.
I'd be very interested to hear more about your study if you are Ok w that. Email don.fletcher@emailme.com.au or mobile 0428 48 9990.
29 Mar 2022
I also asked Renee Brawata about this one who said - "Yep I’d say definitely a LNB, but a sub-adult, given the head shape."
Location information
- Coordinates 149.021918-35.701844
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Booth, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 27 Jan 2022 02:00 AM Recorded on
- heatherb1997 Recorded by
- Unknown Gender
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Collections
- Significant heatherb1997 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Perameles nasuta Other Small Marsupials Small Marsupials Mammals
Species information
- Perameles nasuta Scientific name
- Long-nosed Bandicoot Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1686.75m Recorded at altitude
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Quality score
4 / 7
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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