Fisheries Report No 43 - A Pit trap survey of small mammals, lizards and frogs on the Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve

Authors

Stephen D. Hopper, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Western Australia

Publication Date

1981

Series Number

Fisheries Report No 43

Publisher

Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Western Australia

City

Perth

Abstract

Ten pitlines were placed in open low woodlands near Moates Lake and in upland and coastal heathlands near Mount Gardner on Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve during February 1980 and February 1981. The trapping program established that Common Dunnarts (Smitnthopsts murina) and Honey Possums (Tarstpes spencerae) were widespread in the reserve, and added three lizards and one frog to the list of vertebrates known to occur on the reserve.

Twenty mammals (15 native and 5 feral), four snakes, fifteen lizards, one tortoise and six frogs are now known on Iwo Peoples Bay Nature Reserve. They constitute a representative sample of the south-coastal vertebrate fauna of Western Australia. Their diversity adds to the considerable conservation values of this reserve which contains the only extant population of the Noisy Scrub-bird.

Number of Pages

23

Keywords

Mammals, Lizards, Frogs, Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve, Western Australia

Disciplines

Animal Sciences | Aquaculture and Fisheries | Biodiversity | Natural Resources and Conservation | Natural Resources Management and Policy | Zoology

Recommended Citation

Hopper, S D. (1981), Fisheries Report No 43 - A Pit trap survey of small mammals, lizards and frogs on the Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve. Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Western Australia, Perth. Report Fisheries Report No 43.
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