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planigale.bsky.social
I work on bats AND dasyurids, which symposium will I go to 🤔
ausmammals.bsky.social Australian Mammal Society @ausmammals.bsky.social · Nov 13
Save the date - don't miss out!
The 72nd Australian Mammal Society Conference will be held in Canberra (Shine Dome) from 5th - 10th July 2026! This very special conference will be jointly held with the #australasianbatsociety
- ECR workshops on 5th
- focussed #bat and #dasyurid symposia on 6th
🦇🐾🐭🐨
November 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
quolltracks.bsky.social
Adding a celebratory "Woohoo" from my little part of the world. Long live the Dasyurids.
October 2, 2025 at 8:34 AM
particlewa.bsky.social
Dunnarts are pocket-sized predators that pack a punch.

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#dunnarts #dasyurids
Particle 101: Dunnarts | Particle
Pocket-sized predators that pack a punch.
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July 18, 2025 at 3:31 AM
pezoporus.bsky.social
One Kultarr becomes three! Australia gains two new cool dasyurids - carnivorous marsupials that look like hopping mice! Fantastic integrative taxonomy by Cameron Dodd, @planigale.bsky.social @kennytravouillon.bsky.social and co-authors. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Cryptic Kultarr: Integrative Taxonomy Reveals Unrecognized Species of Carnivorous Marsupial (Dasyuridae: Antechinomys) in Arid Australia
Conservation is impossible if we have not described all of the species we aim to conserve. This paper reviews the taxonomy of the kultarr (Antechinomys laniger) a small arid-zone specialist native to....
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June 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
camcharley.bsky.social
Keen interest in ecology? Enjoy fieldwork? Want to work on dasyurids?

The Baker Mammal Ecology lab @ QUT has a handful of PhD / MSc / Honours projects commencing 2026!

Contact: am.baker@qut.edu.au

#ecology #dasyurids #dunnart #antechinus

Some more details below:
June 27, 2025 at 8:42 AM
roodypatooti.bsky.social
Although devils are usually solitary, they sometimes eat and defecate together in a communal location. Unlike most other dasyurids, the devil thermoregulates effectively, and is active during the middle of the day without overheating. Despite its rotund appearance, it is capable of surprising speed and endurance, and can climb trees and swim across rivers. Devils are not monogamous.
June 11, 2025 at 7:57 AM
weaselbonez.bsky.social
Mammal of the Day 129: Broad-striped Dasyure (Murexia rothschildi)
Family: Dasyuridae
Order: Dasyuromorphia
Infraclass: Marsupial
Conservation Status: Near Threatened
a small animal that is somewhat mouse-like or shrew-like in appearance, but is a marsupial more closely related to tasmanian devils, quolls, numbats, and even the supposedly extinct thylacine. it has a pointed snout, somewhat large eyes and ears, and a long, thin, hairless tail. the fur is dusty grey with a white underside, and namesake broad black dorsal stripe that is unique to the species. very little is known about this animal, it is presumably carnivorous with a preference for invertebrate prey like most other dasyuromorphs and carries its young in a pouch. it likely has at least some climbing capabilities, as do many smaller dasyurids. it is instead placed in the monotypic genus paramurexia by some authorities.
June 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
harrysaddler.bsky.social
Brush-tailed phascogales are medium-sized dasyurids (carnivorous marsupials), related to antechinuses, dunnarts, quolls etc. They’re a threatened species. They can be found in peri-urban areas of NE Melbourne, but rarely: I’ve looked on countless nights and not seen them. But last night I saw THREE!
A smallish mammal with upright ears, a pointy snout, and a black brushy tail. It’s peering from behind a tree. The image was taken with infrared binoculars and is in black-and-white. Another black-and-white infrared photo of a small mammal with a thick black brushy tail, seen from a distance clinging upside-down to the side of a tree. A third infrared photo, similar to the previous one but the animal is closer.
May 23, 2025 at 10:49 AM
awsel.bsky.social
OMG I'm so jealous!!! Dasyurids are my favourite - spicy little fluffbuckets they are. ❤
May 2, 2025 at 11:24 AM
weaselbonez.bsky.social
Mammal of the Day 86: Little Red Kaluta (Dasykaluta rosamondae)
Family: Dasyuridae
Order: Dasyuromorphia
Infraclass: Placental
Conservation Status: Least Concern
a small animal resembling a marsupial version of a very furry shrew, or a weasel or mongoose. it is similar to the closely related antechinuses, though smaller with a shorter head and ears, although its closest living relative is the dibbler. it has a pointed snout, small round ears, short limbs with five digits, and a long, furry tail. it is red-brown in color, hence the name. the little red kaluta feeds on insects and small animals, foraging in sand and flicking its tail in the air while investigating its surroundings. males of the species, like several other dasyurids, often die after the september breeding season, presumably due to stress. like most other marsupials, female birth premature young which are carried and developed in a pouch.
April 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
mammalssuck.bsky.social
"As is typical of most dasyurids, Tasmanian devil catches and holds small prey with its forepaws. Dead prey is examined tactilely with nose, lips, and the numerous whiskers (facial vibrissae)." (Rose et al. 2017) #2025MMM
Tasmanian Devil holding marsupial prey down with front limbs ripping at throat.
March 25, 2025 at 12:41 AM
weaselbonez.bsky.social
Mammal of the Day 57: Eastern Quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus)
Family: Dasyuridae
Order: Dasyuromorphia
Infraclass: Marsupial
Conservation Status: Endangered
a small marsupial carnivore with two color morphs, fawn and black. both can be born into the same litter with parents of either color; fawn is very slightly more common than black. both morphs have white spots covering the dorsal area of the head and back. the fawn morph has a lighter, almost white underside. it has short limbs with five toes, a tapering snout, pointed ears, and a long tail with long-ish fur. as in almost all marsupials, the female eastern quoll bears its young in a pouch, where they are prematurely born the size of a grain of rice and rapidly grow. as with most dasyurids, up to 30 can be born at a time, but the limited number of teats allows only few to survive. the eastern quoll, with its sharp teeth, preys on small animals and carrion, although it may occasionally eat fruit and grass as well.
March 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
harrysaddler.bsky.social
I have much love for all the dasyurids!
January 29, 2025 at 5:09 AM
triloboii.bsky.social
While today most of the mid sized carnivores in Australia are dasyurids like quolls, in the Oligocene and Miocene many of these niches were filled by a diverse group of thylacinids, relatives of the tasmanian tiger. Churchill et al. describe three new species from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area
Comparison of all jaws known from thylacinids from the Oligocene to Miocene alongside the jaw of a modern Spotted Quoll. Taken from Churchill et al 2024
January 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
drdunnart.bsky.social
Slender-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis murina)

#science #ecology #fieldwork #dunnart #calperum #carnivorousmarsupial #dasyurids #WildOz #ausmammals #research #womeninstem #womeninwildlife #womeninscience
November 27, 2024 at 9:14 AM
drdunnart.bsky.social
Today's #dasyurids...
Southern #ningaui (Ningaui yvonneae) and slender-tailed #dunnart (Sminthopsis murina)

#womeninscience #ecology #fieldwork #science
@heatherneilly.bsky.social
Slender-tailed dunnart and Southern ningaui Releasing a slender-tailed dunnart Slender-tailed dunnart Southern ningaui
November 20, 2024 at 4:46 AM
timcurran.bsky.social
Yeah, I was always edgy handling 200 g swamp rats. And a giant white-tailed rat? No thanks!

Keen to hear your thoughts on the ferociousness of the tiny dasyurids.

I can remember Mike Archer suggesting on a class field trip that the little ones were most ferocious. He kept a quoll as a house pet...
November 17, 2024 at 8:50 AM
ecology-sam.bsky.social
I have a little theory called the ‘Dasy line of pain’. It suggests if you plot dasyurids by body size, the intercept of when their bites become more than a tickle, is the kaluta. More data points welcome.
November 15, 2024 at 1:02 AM
haruspex.bsky.social
It eats quolls, Tasmanian devils, and other Dasyurids.
June 24, 2024 at 2:29 PM
jconnor.bsky.social
Just as in modern Australian communities, where ectothermic varanids are more day active, tgan are sympatric endotherms, the dasyurids, so too in the Late Triassic, might eutheropods have been nocturnal, and 'sphenosuchians' less so.
December 1, 2023 at 8:09 AM
wallaboo.bsky.social
My antechinus babies are growing.
#wildliferehab #auswildlife #mammals #dasyurids
A cute little brown furry critter in a hand
November 28, 2023 at 8:52 PM
wallaboo.bsky.social
More baby antechinus coming in… this boy is only 3 grams and doesn’t have his eyes open yet. He’s hungry and feeding well so far 🤞
#wildliferehab #auswildlife #mammals #dasyurids
A tiny furry baby antechinus drinking milk from a syringe
November 18, 2023 at 8:24 PM
wallaboo.bsky.social
I have some baby antechinus in care at the moment, so please enjoy this sleepy baby’s tummy atop a pile of siblings.
#wildliferehab #auswildlife #mammals #dasyurids
A furry little tummy visible in a green cloth pouch
November 17, 2023 at 9:32 AM
wallaboo.bsky.social
😍 Dasyurids are awesome!
October 16, 2023 at 7:09 PM
jconnor.bsky.social
Goannas would not be predicted to have such a strong advantage, over carnivorous placentals, as they do over dasyurids. No goannas have gone extinct since the Pleistocene, which is far
too early, to blame on the dingo. Goannas proved to coexist well with a (limited) placental carnivore fauna.
October 10, 2023 at 11:00 AM