Hostname: page-component-7bb8b95d7b-dtkg6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-09-18T03:46:10.233Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

V.—Observations on Marsupials in the Royal Scottish Museum, with special reference to the Fœtal Material*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

W. C. Osman Hill
W. C. Osman Hill
Affiliation:
Zoological Society of London.
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Synopsis:

A Critical survey is given of the spirit-preserved material of Marsupialia in the Royal Scottish Museum, with special reference to the fœtal stages.

Of the crab-eating opossum, 12 mm., 16 mm., 20 mm., 30 mm. and 70 mm. stage pouch-embryos are discussed in detail, and compared with stages already known for D. marswpialis virginianus. A similar series of Dasyurus quoll, varying from 12·2 mm. to 34 mm., is considered, followed by notes on adults of some of the less well-known Dasyuridæ. Three pouch stages are studied in Peramelidæ and comparison made with data in the literature. In the Phalangeridæ fœtal stages of Pseudocheirus lanuginosus, Schoinobates volans, Trichosurus vulpecula and Acrobates pygmœus are included. Macropodidœ are represented by Macropus robustus stages ranging from 16 mm. (3·4 weeks old) to 138·7 mm.

Type
Research Article
Information
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 62 , Issue 1 , 1952 , pp. 145 - 167
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1952

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

References to Literature

Boardman, W., 1943 a. “On the external characters of the pouch young of some Australian marsupials”, Austr. Zoologist, X, 138–160.Google Scholar
Boardman, W., 1943 b. “The hair-tracts in marsupials. Pt. 1. Description of species”. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., LXVIII, 95–113.Google Scholar
Boardman, W., 1946. “The hair-tracts in marsupials. Pt. 2. Description of the species”. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., LXX, 179–202.Google Scholar
Boardman, W., 1949. “The hair-tracts in marsupials. Pt. 3”, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., LXXIV, 192–195.Google Scholar
Dollman, G., 1939. “Post-natal development of Kangaroos”, Proc. Linn. Soc., CLI, 19–23.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fleay, D., 1935 a. “Breeding of Dasyurus viverrinus and general observations on the species”, Journ. Mammal, XVI, 10–16.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fleay, D., 1935 b. “Notes on the breeding of Tasmanian devils”, Vict. Nat. Melb., LII, 100–105.Google Scholar
Fleay, D., 1940. “Breeding of the Tiger-cat”, Vict. Nat. Melb., LVI, 159–163.Google Scholar
Gibbs, H. F., 1938. “A study of the development of the skin and hair of the Australian opossum, Trichosurus vulpecula”, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., CXVII, B, 611–648.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hartman, C., 1920. “Studies in the development of the opossum (Didelphys virginiana). V. The phenomena of parturition”, Anat. Rec., XIX, 251–262.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hartman, C., 1922. “Breeding habits, development and birth of the opossum”, Smiths. Ann. Rept. (1921), 347–363, pls. i–x.Google Scholar
Hartman, C., 1928. “The breeding season of the opossum (Didelphys virginiana) and the rate of intrauterine and postnatal development”, Journ. Morph. Physiol., XLVI, 143–200, pls. i–iv.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hill, J. P., 1917. “Parturition in marsupials and external characters of the new-born young”, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1917, 337–338.Google Scholar
Hill, W. C. Osman, 1948. “Rhinoglyphics, epithelial sculpture of the mammalian rhinarium”, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., CXVIII, 1–35.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kiesselbach, A., 1934. “Untersuchungen über den Descensus testiculorum bei Didelphis”, Zeits. Anat. Entwgesch. Berlin, CIII, 438–471.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lucas, A. H. S., and Le Souef, W. H. D., 1909. The Animals of Australia, Melbourne.Google Scholar
McCrady, E., 1938. “The Embryology of the opossum”, Amer. Anat. Mem., No. 16, 226 pp., 3 pls.Google Scholar
Selenka, E., 1886–1887. Studien über Entwicklungsgeschichte der Thiere. Viertes Heft, Erste Halfte und Zweite Halfte. Das Opossum (Didelphys virginiana), Wiesbaden: C. W. Kreidels, Verlag.Google Scholar
Simpson, G. G., 1945. “The principles of classification and a classification of mammals”, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., LXXXV, xvi + 350 pp.Google Scholar
Tate, G. H. H., 1947. “On the anatomy and classification of the Dasyuridæ (Marsupialia)”, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., LXXXVIII, 101–155.Google Scholar
Vosseler, J., 1930. “Zur Fortpflanzung des Känguruhs”, Zool. Gart. Lps., III, 1–11.Google Scholar
Wood-Jones, F., 1920. “The external characters of the pouch-embryos of marsupials. No. 1. Trichosurus vulpecula var typicus”, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Australia, XLIV, 360–373.Google Scholar
Wood-Jones, F., 1922 a. “The external characters of pouch-embryos of marsupials. No. 3. Isoodon barrowensis”, Trans. and Proc. Roy. Soc. S. Australia, XLVI, 39–45.Google Scholar
Wood-Jones, F., 1922 b. “The external characters of pouch-embryos of marsupials. No. 4. Pseudochirops dahli”, Trans. and Proc. Roy. Soc. S. Australia, XLVI, 119–130.Google Scholar