[Nhcoll-l] Can your museum help quolls?

[Jack Ashby]

Hi everyone (with apologies for cross-posting),

Please can you help a major project on quoll distributions by sending your specimen data?

I'm contributing to a project led by WWF-Australia and the University of Adelaide to map the historical ranges of the four Australian quoll species, which aims to inform conservation activity. It would be brilliant if you were able to send information about quolls in your collection. Quolls are beautiful, spotted marsupials that have suffered massive range contractions since European colonisation, and include the largest surviving carnivorous marsupials in mainland Australia.



If your quoll data are already on GBIF, there is no need to reply or read further - we'll find your quolls that way!



In whatever format is easiest for you, please could you send me details of any specimens in your collection identified as Dasyurus É. Geoffroy, 1796, and include the following fields:

  *   Accession number
  *   Species ID

  *   Field-collection locality (as precise as possible)
  *   Field-collection date
  *   Collector
  *   Specimen description

Feel free to send all your fields if that's easiest. Please include all quoll records, even for those that the above data are unknown. Although ultimately the species, date and locality data are the most useful for the mapping project, it'd still be brilliant to compile as comprehensive database of museum quolls as we can.



Please only share your data if you are happy for them to be used in this way. Institutions that provide data included in subsequent publications will be acknowledged.
Please reply off-list.
Many thanks
Jack

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University Museum of Zoology
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