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RESEARCH ARTICLE
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Records of attempts to locate the kultarr, Antechinomys laniger (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae)

Anthony Valente A *
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A PO Box 460, Mount Beauty, Vic, 3699, Australia.

* Correspondence to: tony.valente17@gmail.com

Handling Editor: Martin Denny

Australian Mammalogy 47, AM25007 https://doi.org/10.1071/AM25007
Submitted: 26 February 2025  Accepted: 20 May 2025  Published: 13 June 2025

© 2025 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of the Australian Mammal Society.

Abstract

The aim of the following expeditions was to establish a laboratory colony of Antechinomys so as to study the reproductive behaviour of this elusive dasyurid. Information, based on field surveys and literature records, is presented on its relative abundance in different areas of its range. Museum records and published surveys were used to identify possible study areas. Surveys involving trapping and spotlighting over a 3-year period in north-central New South Wales (NSW), south-western Queensland and the Murchison district of Western Australia during 1979 to 1982 resulted in the capture of 33 individuals. Antechinomys proved to be elusive in the NSW and Queensland survey areas and difficult to capture in the Western Australian study site.

Keywords: dasyurid, ecology, habitat, historical decline, museum records, range, spotlighting, trapping.

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