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On 08/03/07, John Harris <Harrjoh@...> wrote:
Duncan
Having shown your photo of the antechinus around at the recent Fauna Survey Group meeting of the Vic Field Nat's, the general consenus was that it was a swainsonii (Dusky).
If it's A. swainsonii it must have had a very serious manicure!! The toenails I can see are short and strongly curved, and not whitish = A. agilis. The animal's muzzle looks quite long and narrow like A. swainsonii, but upside down as it is, this might be misleading. The pelage looks more like A. minimus than either swainsonii or agilis, but colour can de deceiving in photographs (an minimus has long nails too).
Duncan - can you send me a full-sized image?
L.
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