Melbourne Museum Melbourne Museum Species List

[Najade]

On-show species list from my visit on the 03.01.18

Buff-banded Rail
Eastern Whipbird
Satin Bowerbird
Yellow-tufted Honeyeater*
Red-browed Finch
Superb Fairy-wren*

Thorny Devil
Blotched Blue-tongue Lizard
Cunningham's Skink
Southern Water Skink
Murray Darling Carpet Python*
Eastern Long-necked Turtle

Spotted Tree Frog*
Rocky River Tree Frog
Growling Grass Frog
Eastern Banjo Frog

Australian Lungfish
Spotted Galaxias
Common Galaxias
Tupong
Macquarie Perch*
Eels
Oyster Blenny Fish Ornobranchus anolinus
Southern Pygmy Leatherjacket Brachaluteres jacksonianus*

Sugar Bag Bee Trigona carbonaria
Rhinoceros Cockroach Macropanesthia rhinoceros
Australian Cockroach Periplaneta australasiae
Bark Cockroach Laxta sp
Botany Bay Cockroach Polyzosteria limbata
Striped Cockroach Zonioploca flavocincta
Spotted Desert Cockroach Anamesia maculosa
Speckled Cockroach Nauphoeta cinerea
Bush Cockroach Cosmozosteria sp
White Striped Cockroach Zonioploca latizona
Winton Cockroach Anamesia lambii
Flies Diptera
Mosquito larvae Culicidae
Meat Ant Iridomyrmex pupurens
Black Ant Iridomyrmex sp
Green Tree Ant Oecophylla smaragdina
Velvet Ant Mutilidae
Bull Ant Myrmecia pyriformis
Jumping Jacks Myrmecia pilosula
Gum Leaf Katydid Terpandrus sp
Green Katydid Caedicia sp
Giant Katydid Phyllophorella sp
Palm Katydid Segestidia sp
Black-browed Olive Katydid Tettigonidae
Mole Cricket Gryllotalpa sp*
Rainforest Tree Cricket Phricta sp
Blistered Pyrgomorph Monistria pustilifera
Giant Grasshopper Valanga irregularis
Raspy Cricket Gryllacrididae
Stick Insect Phasmatodea
Wuelfing's Stick Insect Acrophylla wuelfingi
Crowned Stick Insect Onchestus rentzi
Walking Stick Ctenomorphodes briarens
Stick Insect Ctenomorpha chronus
Spiny Leaf Insect Extatosoma tiaratum
Rainforest Mantis Hierodula majuscula
Tiger Beetle Megacephala australis
Dermestid Beetle Dermestes maculatus
Green Diving Beetle Dytiscidae*
Scavenger Beetle Hydrophilidae*
Giant Water Bug Belostomidae*
Backswimmer Notonectidae*
Water Scorpion Laccotrephes tristis*
Waterboatman Corixidae*
Damselfly nymph Coenagrionidae*
Needle Bug Ranatra*
Dragonfly nymph Aeshnidae*

Freshwater Shrimp Paratya australis
Gippsland Spiny Crayfish*
Yabby Cherax destructor*
Small Seaweed Crab Notomithrax minor*
Rough Slater Porcellio scaber
Pill Bug Armadillidium vulgarae

House Centipede Scutigeridae
Rainforest Millipede Rhinocricidae
Giant Millipede Rhinocricidae

Rainforest Snail Hadra webbi
Giant Flat-shelled Snail Pedinogyra hayii
Garden Snail Helix aspersa
Aquatic Snail Planorbidae*

White-tailed Spider Lampona cylindrata
St. Andrew's Cross Spider Argiope heyserlingii
Golden Orb Weaving Spider Nephila maculata
Golden Orb Weaving Spider Nephila edulis
Tent Spider Cyrtophora moluccensis
Red-back Spider Latrodectus hasseltii
Whistling Spider Selenocosmia stirlingi
Black House Spider Badamna insignis
Brown House Spider Steatoda grossa
Wolf Spider Lycosidae
Blue Mountain Funnel-web Hadronyche versuta
Alpine Funnel-web Hadronyche alpina*
Sydney Funnel-web Atrax robustus
Sutherland's Funnel-web Atrax sutherlandi*
Badge Huntsman Neosparassus sp
Huntsman Holconia montana
Huntsman Holconia immanis
Communal Huntsman Spider Delena cancerides
Mexican Red-knee Tarantula Brachypelma smithii
Mexican Red-rump Brachypelma vagans
King Baboon Tarantula Citharischius crawshayi
Brazilian Salmon Pink Tarantula Lasiodora parahybana
King Baboon Tarantula Pelinobius muticus
Flinders Ranges Scorpion Urodacus elongatus

Freshwater Mussel Hyriidae

Cushion Seastar Meridiastra calcar

Sea Urchin Heliocidaris erythrogramma

Leech Richardsonianus australis*

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*=(not seen)

 

[AWP]

I'm still doubting between the Zoo and the Museum to visit when I'm in Melbourne next month (maybe both, when I've enough time), but this seems to be an interesting collection.

 

[snowleopard]

Thanks very much for posting the list!

 

[Chlidonias]

I'm still doubting between the Zoo and the Museum to visit when I'm in Melbourne next month (maybe both, when I've enough time), but this seems to be an interesting collection.

Obviously if there's time, then do both.

If you're interested in the smaller animals (invertebrates etc) then visit the museum - you won't see a lot of the Australian invertebrates elsewhere. It is a really good museum with lots of other interesting non-live exhibits. Note that the Moloch is only on display at certain times of each day (check with the museum beforehand).

The zoo is good, but a lot of it is going to be species you are more than familiar with from home so the visit would be more seeing how they are exhibited. If limited for time I would suggest replacing the Melbourne Zoo with either Healesville or Moonlit Sanctuary