Range extension of the Short-beaked Echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus (Monotremata: Tachyglossidae) and the Northern Brown Bandicoot Isoodon macrourus (Marsupialia: Peramelidae) in Queensland: Mua (Moa Island), Torres Strait
Published online: 7 November 2014
Hitchcock, G., Conaty, S.D., Fell, D.G., Gordon, G., Ingram, M.S., Reis, T.M., Stanton, D.J. & Wigness, J.N. 2014. Range extension of the Short-beaked Echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus (Monotremata: Tachyglossidae) and the Northern Brown Bandicoot Isoodon macrourus (Marsupialia: Peramelidae) in Queensland: Mua (Moa Island), Torres Strait. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature 59: 1–7.
14 November 2013
7 November 2014
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https//doi.org/10.17082/j.2204-1478.59.2014.2013-06
Echidna, Bandicoot, Torres Strait Islands, refugial fauna, translocation, dispersal
Until recently there have been no confirmed records of medium-sized native terrestrial mammals from the Torres Strait Islands, far north Queensland. The Short-beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus Shaw, 1792) and the Northern Brown Bandicoot (Isoodon macrourus Gould, 1842) are reported here occurring on Mua (Moa Island). This is the most northerly known occurrence of these species in Australia; both also occur in New Guinea.
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