World Species : Marmosops parvidens (Delicate Slender Opossum)

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Marmosops parvidens (Delicate Slender Opossum)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The delicate slender opossum (Marmosops parvidens) is a small pouchless marsupial of the family Didelphidae that occurs in French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and adjacent Venezuela and Brazil. Marmosops pinheiroi, Marmosops bishopi and Marmosops juninensis had long been considered to represent the same species, until parvidens and pinheiroi were found in sympatry in French Guiana. This species is found in moist primary tropical rainforest at elevations up to 2000 m. It is nocturnal and partially arboreal, and feeds on insects and fruit.

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 12.87

EDGE Score: 2.63

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	15 grams

Diet ^[2]	Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Fruit ^[2]	50 %
Diet - Invertibrates ^[2]	50 %
Forages - Arboreal ^[2]	100 %

Litter Size ^[3]	4
Nocturnal ^[2]	Yes
Snout to Vent Length ^[3]	3.937 inches (10 cm)

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Amazon-Orinoco-Southern Caribbean mangroves	Brazil, Columbia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela	Neotropic	Mangroves
Beni savanna	Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Cerrado	Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Guianan Freshwater swamp forests	Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan Highlands moist forests	Venezuela, Brazil, Guyana, Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan moist forests	Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan piedmont and lowland moist forests	Brazil, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan savanna	Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Iquitos varzea	Brazil, Peru, Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Juruá-Purus moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Marajó varzea	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Mato Grosso seasonal forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Monte Alegre varzea	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Negro-Branco moist forests	Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Orinoco Delta swamp forests	Venezuela, Guyana	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Pantepuis	Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Purus varzea	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Purus-Madeira moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Rio Negro campinarana	Brazil, Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Southwest Amazon moist forests	Peru, Brazil, Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Tocantins/Pindare moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Uatuma-Trombetas moist forests	Brazil, Guyana, Suriname	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Xingu-Tocantins-Araguaia moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name	IUCN Category	Area acres	Location
Manú National Park	II	4213523	Cusco, Peru
Parque Nacional Canaima National Park	II	7542183	Venezuela
Reserva Cuzco Amazonico			Peru
Reserva de la Biosfera de Yasuni Biosphere Reserve		4156313	Ecuador

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Felisa A. Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons, S. K. Morgan Ernest, Kate E. Jones, Dawn M. Kaufman, Tamar Dayan, Pablo A. Marquet, James H. Brown, and John P. Haskell. 2003. Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84:3403
♦ ²Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ ³Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109

Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database

Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0