Lung development in the eastern quoll (<i>Dasyurus viverrinus</i>)

The development of the lungs of the eastern quoll Dasyurus viverrinus, a marsupial species with extremely small newborns, was investigated by light microscopic morphometry in the early postnatal period (1-25 days). Body weight, lung volume, surface density and surface area of the lung, volume proportions of the parenchyma and non-parenchyma and the components of the later two were determined and part of this data publication. Macrographes of the external morphology of a neonate (0-12 hours old) and by 7, 14, 19 and 25 dpn (days post natum) were documented. Light micrographes of wholemount transversal and longitudinal sections of newborn eastern quolls and light micrographes of the developing eastern quoll lung were provided.