This is a snapshot of some of the animals caught in pitfall traps during wildlife surveys on DHI Wildlife on DHI between 2009 and 2014. A few other (non-survey) wildlife images are also included. Below - line of pit traps White-bellied sea eagle Left - some pit trap contents
Barn owl Snakes Pseudonaja mengdeni Western brown snake (Gwardar)
Pseudechis australis Antaresia stimsoni Mulga Stimson’s Python
Demansia calodera Black-necked whipsnake
Simoselaps littoralis Burrowing snake
Neelaps bimaculatus Ramphotyphlops australis Black-naped snake Southern blind snake Legless lizards Delma fraseri Fraser’s legless lizard
Pletholax gracilis Keeled legless lizard
Aprasia haroldi Shark Bay worm-lizard
Delma fraseri Fraser’s legless lizard
Delma butleri Aprasia haroldi Butler’s legless lizard Shark Bay worm-lizard Egernia stokesii badia Skinks Gidgee skink (Quoin) Tiliqua rugosa palarra Bobtail
Egernia stokesii badia Gidgee skink (Notch)
Tiliqua rugosa Bobtail Skinks
Lerista varia Shark Bay broad-blazed slider Cyclodomorphus celatus Lerista lineopunctulata Western slender blue-tongue Lerista connivens Dotted-line robust slider Blinking broad-blazed slider
Ctenotus fallens West-coast laterite ctenotus
Lerista planiventralis Keeled slider
Morethia lineoocellata West coast morethia skink Ctenotus australis Western limestone ctenotus
C. plagio Rankinia adelaidensis or R. parviceps butleri Dragons Heath dragon
Ctenophorus maculatus maculatus Spotted military dragon
Pogona minor minor Dwarf bearded dragon Ctenophorus caudicinctus Ring-tailed dragon Dragons
Ctenophorus butleri Shark Bay heath dragon (female)
Ctenophorus reticulatus Western netted dragon
Ctenophorus adelaidensis formerly Tympanocryptis adelaidensis Western heath dragon
Ctenophorus butleri Shark Bay heath dragon (male)
Ctenophorus maculatus maculatus Spotted military dragon Geckoes Nephrurus levis occidentalis Knob-tailed gecko
Diplodactylus ornatus Strophurus spinigerus Soft spiny-tailed gecko Ornate stone gecko
Nephrurus levis occidentalis Nephrurus levis occidentalis Knob-tailed gecko Knob-tailed gecko
Lucasium alboguttatum White-spotted ground gecko
Nephrurus levis Lucasium alboguttatum Knob-tailed gecko White-spotted ground gecko
Diplodactylus ornatus Ornate stone gecko Geckoes
Strophurus spinigerus Soft spiny-tailed gecko
Underwoodisaurus milii also Nephrurus milii Strophurus spinigerus Thick-tailed or barking gecko Soft spiny-tailed gecko
Strophurus spinigerus Underwoodisaurus milii also Nephrurus milii Soft spiny-tailed gecko Thick-tailed or barking gecko
Crenadactylus ocellatus horni Clawless gecko Rodents Dasyurid
Pseudomys hermannsburgensis Sandy inland mouse
Pseudomys hermannsburgensis Sandy inland mouse
Pseudomys albocinereus Ash grey mouse Sminthopsis dolichura Little long-tailed dunnart