International Thylacine Specimen Database

Certainly in my experience this is by far the most thorough compilation focused on an extinct or endangered animal ever produced and, as such, bound to be enormously useful to many generations of scientists to come.The ITSD was first published as an electronic resource on a series of three CD-ROMs in April 2005.

The ITSD has been designed as a free access academic tool to promote and facilitate undergraduate and postgraduate research into the species.

It can be accessed through the offices of the curators and heads of department of the universities and museums that hold thylacine material or alternatively through the libraries of several of the major zoological societies.

It is a wonderful resource and an extremely valuable part of Australia’s natural heritage.The master copy of the ITSD is held at the Zoological Society in London with mirror copies held within the university of Tasmania in Hobart, the Australian National Wildlife Collection in Canberra and the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston.

These awards are a tribute to Gilbert Whitley, the eminent Australian ichthyologist and are presented for outstanding publications that contain a significant amount of new information relating to the fauna of the Australasian region.