Bronze Quoll
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| Dasyurus spartacus Van Dyck, 1987 |
The Bronze Quoll (Dasyurus spartacus) is a species of quoll found only in New Guinea. It was discovered in the early 1970s when five specimens were collected, but only described in 1987 when Dr. Stephen Van Dyck of the Queensland Museum examined them and recognised their distinctness.[3]
Very little is known of it; it was previously thought to be an outlying population of the Western Quoll (Dasyurus geoffroii).[4]
[edit] References
- ^ Groves, Colin (16 November 2005). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 25. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
- ^ Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group (1996). Dasyurus spartacus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 2007-02-02.
- ^ Shuker, Karl (1993). The Lost Ark: New and Rediscovered Animals of the 20th Century. HarperCollins Publishers, 91. ISBN 0-00-219943-2.
- ^ Firestone, Karen. Population genetics of New Guinean quolls. University of New South Wales. Retrieved on 2007-02-02.
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