- Animal Colonies
- While we
adopt a comparative approach the laboratory owns and maintains a number of animal colonies
for research purposes.
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- Potorous tridactylus
apicalis (Gould, 1851):
- Long nosed potoroo
- MARSUPIALIA
- DIPROTODONTA
- POTOROIDAE
- Source: Tasmania
- Colony status: self-sustaining
- Established: 1998
(photo AERP)
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- Macropus eugenii
decres (Troughton, 1941)
- Tammar wallaby
- MARSUPIALIA
- DIPROTODONTA
- MACROPODIDAE
- Source: Kangaroo Island, SA
- Colony status: self-sustaining, occasional restocking from Kangaroo Island
- Established:
1992
(photo AERP)
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- Macropus giganteus giganteus
(Shaw, 1790)
- Eastern grey kangaroo
- MARSUPIALIA
- DIPROTODONTA
- MACROPODIDAE
- Source: Victoria
- Colony status: self-sustaining, wild stock
- Established
1992
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- Sminthopsis crassicaudata
crassicaudata (Gould, 1844)
- Fat-tailed dunnart
- MARSUPIALIA
- DASYUROMORPHIA
- DASYURIDAE
- Source: South Australia -> Univ Adelaide, original stock collected 1965
- Colony status: self-sustaining (Poiley out-breeding program)
- Established:
2000
(photo Museum Victoria)
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- Pseudomys australis
(Gray, 1832)
- Plains rat
- EUTHERIA
- RODENTIA
- MURIDAE
- Source: Central Australia -> VIAS
- Colony status: self-sustaining
- Established: 1999
(photo Museum Victoria)
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- Heteronotia binoei
- Bynoe's Gecko
- SQUAMATA
- SAURIA
- GEKKONIDAE
- Source: Sth Australia and Nth Territory -> Univ Sydney, original stock collected 2000
- Colony status: self-sustaining
- Established: 2003
(photo Museum Victoria)
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