Mammals—Registered lots: 5600 Skins: 1270 Skeletal: 2350 Mounts: 260 Wet: 2470 Coverage 90% of specimens are of Tasmanian origin. All Tasmanian terrestrial species are represented.
	Eastern Falsistrelle Falsistrellus tasmaniensis skull

Significant holdings
• 890 pouch young of Tasmanian marsupials including significant numbers of Common Wombat, Eastern Quoll, Tasmanian Devil and Brushtail Possum.

• 535 Common Wombats, including 400 skulls, 85 pouch young and juveniles.
• 1200 native and endemic rodents (Muridae), including study skins, skulls and wet specimens.
• Extensive collection of skeletal material, mostly Tasmanian species.

Common Wombat Vombatus ursinus pouch young	Long-tailed Mouse Pseudomys higginsi study skin

Birds—Registered lots: 10060 Skins: 3830 Skeletal: 1090 Mounts: 300 Wet: 550 Nests: 830 Eggs: 3000 clutches Coverage 80% of specimens are Tasmanian in origin. 95% of Tasmanian species are represented.
	Green Rosella Platycercus caledonicus study skin

Significant holdings
• Extensive collection of study skins of Tasmanian birds, nearly all species represented.
• Extensive collection of skeletal material, mostly Tasmanian and Australian mainland species.
• T Singline and H Leonard egg collection (2500 clutches, mostly collected from the Australian mainland).
• 300 Canadian bird study skins
• 64 South American and West Indian Humming Birds collected by John Gould.

Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus funereus mount	Grey Currawong Strepera fuliginosa eggs

Reptiles—Registered lots: 1640 Wet: 1420 Skeletal: 40 Other: 170 Coverage 70% of specimens are Tasmanian in origin. All Tasmanian snakes and most Tasmanian skinks are well represented.
	Tiger Snake Notechis ater display specimen

Amphibians—Registered lots: 780 Wet: 740 Other: 40 Coverage 90% of specimens are Tasmanian in origin. Most Tasmanian frogs are well represented.
	Brown Tree Frogs Litoria ewingi wet specimens

Fish—Registered lots: 2480 Wet: 2440 Other: 40 Coverage 80% of specimens are Tasmanian in origin.
	Native Trout Galaxias truttaceus wet specimens

Invertebrates

Over the last 15 years a deliberate effort has been made to increase holdings of invertebrate specimens in the collections and to register and database existing material. There are currently approximately 75000 registered lots, most are of Tasmanian in origin. (We also house a large collection of unsorted and unregistered invertebrate material donated as a result of various fauna surveys around Tasmania).

Arthropoda—Registered lots: 48000 Coverage 90% of specimens are Tasmanian in origin. 10 Classes (60 Orders) are represented. Significant holdings • 1780 registered lots of slide-mounted bird and mammal lice.
	Miena Jewel Beetle Castiarina insculpta listed as extinct, rediscovered in 2004

Insecta – Registered lots: 13500 Arachnida – Registered lots: 11100 (95% spiders) Diplopoda – Registered lots: 5090 (see Tas. multipedes page) Chilopoda – Registered lots: 2080 (see Tas. multipedes page) Crustacea – Registered lots: 2300
	Tasmanian millipede (Polydesmida) Dasystigma sp.

Giant Tasmanian Crab Pseudocarcinus gigas	Plomley's Trapdoor Spider Migas plomleyi

Mollusca—Registered lots: 23000 Coverage 70% of specimens are Tasmanian in origin. Significant holdings • Mary Loddder Collection • RC Kershaw Collection • K Bonham Collection • AE Monger Collection • Simson Collection
	Tasmanian Tree-snail Bothriembryon tasmanicus

North-east Forest Snail Anoglypta launcestonensis

Annelida—Registered lots: 3600

Coverage
95% of specimens are Tasmanian in origin.

Significant holdings
Approx. 3000 registered lots of Tasmanian earthworms comprising approximately 180 species.

Enquiries about any aspect of Zoology or Botany should be directed to:
email: zoology@qvmag.tas.gov.au

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