Intorduced mammals in Tasmania

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Intorduced mammals in Tasmania

Family	Species	Common Name	1996	2001


Bovidae	Bos taurus	cattle	X	X

	Capra hircus	feral goat	X	X

	Ovis aries	sheep	X	X

Canidae	Canis familiaris	feral dog	X	X

	Vulpes vulpes	fox		X

Cervidae	Dama dama	fallow deer	X	X

Cervidae?	Cervus unicolour	Sambar deer		?

Equidae	Equus asinus	donkey	X	X

	Equus caballus	horse	X	X

Felidae	Felis catus	feral cat	X	X

Leporidae	Lepus capensis	brown hare	X	X

	Oryctolagus cuniculus	rabbit	X	X

Muridae	Mus musculus	house mouse	X	X

	Rattus norvegicus	brown rat	X	X

	Rattus rattus	black rat	X	X

Mustelidae	Mustela furo	ferret	X	X

Petauridae	Petaurus breviceps	sugar glider	X	X

Suidae	Sus scrofa	pig	X	X

Total			16	17

Total numbers only include those that are presnet in Tasmania (X) and not those that are potentially (?) here.
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Source: Sources: Smith, S.J., 1990, Checklist of vertebrate animals of Tasmania, St David's Park Publishing, Tasmania.

Source: Nature Conservation Branch, DPIWE.

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Last Modified: 14 Dec 2006
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