Species Dasyuroides byrnei Spencer, 1896

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External Links

• Dasyuroides byrnei Spencer, B. 1896. Mammalia. pp. 1-52 in Spencer, B. (ed.). Report on the Work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia. Pt 2 Zoology. Melbourne : Melville, Mullen & Slade. [Date published Feb. 1896] [36].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NMV C6323 ♂ spirit specimen (skull not removed), Charlotte Waters, NT.
• Dasyuroides byrnei pallidior Thomas, O. 1906. New mammals from the Australian region. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 17: 324-332 [330].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 5.8.9.7 ♂ skin & skull, Killalpaninna, SA (as Killalpanima, E of Lake Eyre North).

  Type locality references:

  Finlayson, H.H. 1961. On Central Australian mammals. Part IV - The distribution and status of Central Australian species. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 14: 141-191 [155] (under Sminthopsis crassicaudata centralis).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Mack, G. 1961. Mammals from south-western Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 13: 213-229 [214]

 

Generic Combinations

• Dasycercus byrnei (Spencer, 1896).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, SA: Channel Country (CHC)

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, low shrubland, nocturnal, predator, terrestrial, tussock grassland.

 

General References

Archer, M. 1979. The status of Australian dasyurids, thylacinids and myrmecobiids. pp. 29-43 in Tyler, M.J. (ed.). The Status of Endangered Australasian Wildlife. Adelaide : Royal Zoological Society of South Australia.

Aslin, H.J. & Lim, L. 1995. Kowari Dasyuroides byrnei. pp. 59-61 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Beazley, L.D. & Dunlop, S.A. 1983. The evolution of an area centralis and visual streak in the marsupial Setonix brachyurus. Journal of Comparative Neurology 216: 211-231

Clayton, M., Wombey, J.C., Mason, I.J., Chesser, R.T. & Wells, A. 2006. CSIRO List of Australian Vertebrates: A Reference with Conservation Status. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing iv 162 pp. [100] (in Dasycercus)

Ganslosser, U. & Meissner, K. 1984. Behavioural signs of oestrus in Dasyuroides byrnei (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae). Australian Mammalogy 7: 223-224

Geiser, F., Matweijczyk, L. & Baudinette, R.V. 1986. From ectothermy to heterothermy: the energetics of the kowari, Dasyuroides byrnei (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae). Physiological Zoology 59: 220-229

Harman, A.M. 1995. The optic chiasm of Australian marsupials. Australian Journal of Zoology 43: 467-477

Kleinknecht, S., Erkert, H.G. & Nelson, J.E. 1985. Circadian and ultradian rhythms of activity and O2 consumption in three nocturnal marsupial species: Petaurus breviceps, Phalangeridae; Dasyuroides byrnei, Dasyuridae; Monodelphis domestica, Didelphidae. Zeitschrift fur Säugetierkunde 50: 321-329

Lee, A.K., Woolley, P. & Braithwaite, R.W. 1982. Life history strategies of dasyurid marsupials. pp. 1-11 in Archer, M. (ed.). Carnivorous Marsupials. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales Vol. 1 i-vi, 396 pp.

Lim, L. 1992. The Recovery Plan for the Kowari. Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service and South Australian Department of Environment and Planning, Adelaide.

Lim, L. 1998. Kowari Recovery Plan Project No. 186. Final Report Research Phase. Australian nature conservation Agency, Canberra and Department of Environment and Heritage, Brisbane.

MacMillen, R.E. & Dawson, T.J. 1986. Energy and water metabolism of the kowari, Dasyuroides byrnei (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) while resting and running. Australian Mammalogy 9: 141-144

Maxwell, S., Burbidge, A.A. & Morris, K. 1996. The 1996 Action Plan for Australian Marsupials and Monotremes. Canberra : Wildlife Australia 234 pp.

Meisner, K. & Ganslosser, U. 1985. Ontogeny of social behaviour of the kowari, Dasuroides byrnei Spencer, 1896 (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) II. Development of initiation, maintenance and termination of social contacts. Zoologischer Anzeiger 215: 1-8

Meisner, K. & Ganslosser, U. 1985. Ontogeny of social behaviour of the kowari, Dasyroides byrnei Spencer, 1896 (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae). I. A comparison of the behavioural repertoire of juvenile and adult kowaris. Zoologischer Anzeiger 214: 291-308

Moore, S.J. & Sanson, G.D. 1995. A comparison of the molar efficiency of two insect-eating mammals. Journal of Zoology, London 235: 175-192

Morton, S.R. 1982. Dasyurid marsupials of the Australian arid zone: an ecological review. pp. 117-130 in Archer, M. (ed.). Carnivorous Marsupials. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales Vol. 1 i-vi, 396 pp. (especially bibliography)

Smith, B.K. & Dawson, T.J. 1984. Changes in the thermal balance of a marsupial (Dasyuroides byrnei) during cold and warm acclimation. Journal of Thermal Biology 9: 199-204

Suzuki, S., Nishida, T., Nishinakagawa, H. & Otsuka, J. 1990. Fine structure of the mandibular gland in crest-tailed marsupiual rat (Dasyuroides byrnei). Experimental Animals 39: 55-64

van Dyck, S. & Strahan, R. 2008. The Mammals of Australia. Third Edition. Sydney : Reed New Holland 887 pp. [52] (in Dasyuroides)

Watts, C.H.S. & Aslin, H.J. 1974. Notes on the small mammals of north-eastern South Australia and south-western Queensland. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 9: 61-69

Woolley, P.A. 1987. Phallic morphology of Dasyuriodes byrnei and Dasycercus cristicauda (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 35: 535-540

 

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Kowari)

 

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