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PatrickCampbell2 wrote:
14 Apr 2025
This is the nominate subspecies, which is restricted to Kangaroo Island. Nice find Josh!
The number of toes is vitally important in distinguishing between this species and the other species of Hemiergis found on the island, namely H. peronii, which has four toes, whereas this appears to have three.
Hemiergis decresiensis decresiensis
SimonDunstan wrote:
17 Jan 2025
Wonderful find!
Myrmecia forceps
marcycad wrote:
9 Jan 2025
There is only one Xanthorrhoea native to KI.
Xanthorrhoea semiplana subsp. tateana
MichaelMulvaney wrote:
5 Dec 2024
Thanks for adding this sighting of a Kangaroo Island endemic
Litoria sibilus
MichaelMulvaney wrote:
2 Dec 2024
From photo difficult to tell if it is little or western pygmy possum
Cercarteus sp. (genus)

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