Mammals of Fleurieu Peninsula This list of of Fleurieu Peninsula was applied by the late P.F. Aitken, onetime Curator of Mammals at the South Australian Museum. Additional information was obtained from surveys of Deep Creek Conservation Park in December 1971, January 1972, January 1980 and January 1984 by the Club, Field Naturalists Society of South (R. Thomas, personal communication). Introduced species are indicated by an asterisk. RECORDED IN SCIENTIFIC NAME COMMON NAME HABITAT DEEP CREEK CONS. PARK Antechinus Flavipes Yellow-footed Antechinus Woodland, eucalypt forest Yes Cercartetus concinnus South western Pigmy Possum Scrub to eucalypt forest No Chalinolobus gouldii Gould's wattled Bat Scrub to open-forest (mainly tree spouts) Yes Chalinolobus moria Chocolate Wattled Bat Scrub to open-forest (tree spouts) No Eptesicus sp. Eptesicus Scrub to open-forest (tree spouts) Yes *Felis calus Cat (feral) Cosmopolitan Yes Hydromys chrysogaster Water Rat Creeks No Isoodon obesulus Southern Brown Bandicoot Dense understorey Yes *Lepus capensis Brown Hare Grasslands Yes Macropus fuliginosus Western Grey Kangaroo Heath to eucalypt forest Yes Miniopterus schreibersii Common Bent-wing Ba Eucalypt forest (caves) No * musculus House Mouse Disturbed areas and early fire succession Yes Nyctophilus geoffroy Lesser Long-eared Bat Scrub to forest, semi cleared pasture (tree spouts, buildings) Yes *Oryctolagus cuniculus Rabbit Grasslands and disturbed areas Yes Pseudocheirus peregrinus Common Ringtail Coastal scrub to eucalypt forest Yes fuscipes Bush Rat Coastal scrub to eucalypt forest Yes Rattus lutreolus Swamp Rat Dense undergrowth near swamps Yes *Rattus norvegicus Brown Rat Around human habitation No *Rattus rattus Coastal scrub to eucalypt forest Yes Tachyglossus aculeatus Short-beaked Echidna Scrub to eucalypt forest Yes Tadarida australis White-striped Mastiff Bat Roots in tree spouts No Tadarida plariliceps Little Mastiff Bat Open scrub (mainly tree spouts) No Trichosurus vulpecula Common Bush-tailed Possum Woodland, eucalypt forest No *Vulpes vulpes Cosmopolitan Yes

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