- Title
- Historical reports of Common (Bare-nosed) Wombats 'Vombatus ursinus' in the Warrnambool area, Victoria
- Creator
- Wallis, Robert; O’Callaghan, Elizabeth
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/170525
- Identifier
- vital:14189
- Identifier
- ISBN:0042-5184
- Abstract
- The Common or Bare-nosed Wombat Vombatus ursinus was once widespread in south-eastern Australia, ranging from Mount Gambier and Murray Bridge in South Australia, through Victoria and New South Wales and into southeastern Queensland (Troughton 1941). In Victoria it now occupies a range of habitats in hilly and mountainous regions (especially in East Gippsland, where it is common) and near the coast, but its distribution has declined. Thus, while it exists in Victoria in low numbers in the far south-west at Dergholm and Nelson (Menkhorst 1995), wombats are today almost completely absent in western Victoria. This contrasts with historical records indicating wombats were once found throughout the Volcanic Plains and the Otway Plains (Menkhorst 1995). Surprisingly, wombats are absent from the Otway Ranges and Menkhorst ascribes occasional sightings of them there to be the result of translocation by humans.
- Publisher
- Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
- Relation
- Victorian Naturalist Vol. 135, no. 6 (2018), p. 178-180
- Rights
- Copyright © The Authors
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 05 Environmental Sciences; 06 Biological Sciences; Common wombat; Habitat (Ecology); Excavations (Archaeology)
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