Mammals that have been photograph by zoochatters

aardvark250

aardvark250

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I'm not sure where to post this,so if I post this in the wrong place, moderators please move it to a correct one.

Well,I get boring. I want to know how many species is photograph by us,so here will be a list.
Part 1: Monotremes,Opossums, and Dasyuromorphia.

Monotreme

Order monotremata

Family Ornithorhynchidae

Genus Ornithorhynchus

Platypus( O. anatinus) by @zooboy28

Family Tachyglossidae

Genus Tachyglossus

short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) by @Najade

Genus Zaglossus

Western long-beaked echidna, Z. bruijni by @Najade

Eastern long-beaked echidna, Z. bartoni by @Hix


Marsupials

Order Didelphimorphia

Family Didelphidae

Genus Didelphis

Common opossum (Didelphis marsupialis) by @jayjds2

Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) by @AWP
Big-eared opossum (Didelphis aurita) by @Giant Eland

White-eared Opossum (Didelphis albiventris) by @Giant Eland

Genus Caluromys

bare-tailed woolly opossum (Caluromys philander) by @Giant Eland

Derby's woolly opossum (Caluromys derbianus) by @toto98


Genus Philander

Gray four-eyed opossum (Philander opossum) by @Sun Wukong

Genus Chironectes

Yapok (Chironectes minimus) by @Giant Eland

Genus Monodelphis

Gray short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis domestica) by @ ungulate nerd

Dasyuromorphia

Family Dasyuridae

Genus Dasyuroides

Kowari, Dasyuroides byrnei by @ vogelcommando

Genus Dasyurus

Eastern quoll, Dasyurus viverrinus by @Hettie

Tiger quoll, Dasyurus maculatus by @LaughingDove

Northern quoll, Dasyurus hallucatus by @Hix

Western quoll, Dasyurus geoffroii by @LaughingDove

Genus Parantechinus

Dibbler, Parantechinus apicalis by @Hix

Genus Sarcophilus

Tasmanian devil, Sarcophilus harrisii by @Joker1706

Genus Antechinus

Agile antechinus, Antechinus agilis by @Giant Eland

Yellow-footed antechinus, Antechinus flavipes by @Hix

Dusky antechinus, Antechinus swainsonii by @Terry Thomas

Red-tailed phascogale, Phascogale calura by @Najade

Genus Sminthopsis

Fat-tailed dunnart, Sminthopsis crassicaudata by @LaughingDove

Julia Creek dunnart, Sminthopsis douglasi by @Giant Eland

Family Myrmecobiidae

numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus) by @Hix
 
A nice idea. I was trying to upload photos of Caluromys lanatus but unfortunately I can't get them small enough.
 
Here is a list of other marsupials photographed by Zoochatters:
Long-nosed and golden bandicoots; western and eastern barred bandicoots; southern and northern brown bandicoots
Greater bilby
Koala
Southern hairy-nosed and common wombats
Common, short-eared, golden, mountain and coppery brush-tail possums; common and short-tailed spotted cuscuses; black-spotted cuscus; Sulawesi bear and dwarf cuscuses
Green, western and common ring-tail possums; greater glider
Squirrel, sugar, yellow-bellied and mahogany gliders; Leadbeater’s and striped possums
Mountain, eastern and western pygmy possums
Feather-tail glider
Musky rat kangaroo
Burrowing, rufous, northern, eastern and brush-tailed bettongs; boodie; long-nosed potoroo
Western and eastern grey kangaroos; red and Kangaroo Island kangaroos; common, antilopine and black wallaroos; agile, parma, red-necked/Bennett’s, black-striped, tammar, whiptail, western brush and swamp (including northern) wallabies; northern and bridled nail-tail wallabies; black-footed, black-flanked, brush-tailed, Proserpine, short-eared and yellow-footed rock wallabies; narbarlek; red-legged, red-bellied, dusky and red-necked pademelons; quokka; spectacled hare wallaby; mala; white-striped dorcopsis; Lumholtz’s, Goodfellow’s, Doria’s, Huon and Matschie’s tree kangaroos
 
So the signage at the park is wrong then?

How do you differentiate the two species anyway?
 
Najade said:
So the signage at the park is wrong then?

How do you differentiate the two species anyway?
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They have different numbers of toes, is the most obvious. The animals at Taronga were called bruijnii when they were at London Zoo (at that time all extant Zaglossus were bruijnii) but I think even by the time they first arrived at Taronga in 1994 they were known to be bartoni, even if it wasn't recognised as a full species yet. Certainly Taronga states them on their website, press releases, official records, etc as being bartoni - I don't know what their signage says though.
 
I was quite confused in Taronga which species it was, the signage says Z. bruijni, but with the distribution map of Z. bartoni... On the other hand, personally it doesn't matter. I've seen a Long-beaked Echidna, a very rare species, whether it was a Western or a Eastern one.
 
@Aardvark Nice project! A couple of years ago I started something like this for myself, making a file with photographs of every zoo mammal species that I photographed. However, I didn't finish it. I might have photos of some other dasyurids native to the NT, but I'm not sure.
 
Chlidonias said:
The animals at Taronga were called bruijnii when they were at London Zoo (at that time all extant Zaglossus were bruijnii) but I think even by the time they first arrived at Taronga in 1994 they were known to be bartoni, even if it wasn't recognised as a full species yet
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The long-beaked echidnas were known to be bartoni during the years they were at London Zoo although, of course, bartoni was then considered to be a sub-species of bruijnii not a distinct species.

In those days, the mammal labels at London Zoo only identified the species, not the sub-species. For example, the northern white rhino "Ben" was simply labelled as white rhinoceros with no indication he was the northern form.

Similarly, the long-beaked echidnas were always labelled bruijnii following the then generally accepted taxonomy that there was only one species. However, even though not identified as such on the labels, they were always considered to be the bartoni sub-species and were referred to as such in some of the annual reports.
 
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