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Micoureus demerarae (Woolly Mouse Opossum)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The woolly mouse opossum or long-furred woolly mouse opossum (Marmosa demerarae), known locally as the Cuíca, is a South American marsupial of the family Didelphidae. Its range includes central Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, eastern Peru, northern Bolivia, and northern Brazil. It was formerly assigned to the genus Micoureus, which was made a subgenus of Marmosa in 2009.
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Infraspecies

Micoureus demerarae areniticola
Micoureus demerarae demerarae (Long-furred woolly mouse opossum)
Micoureus demerarae dominus
Micoureus demerarae esmeraldae
Micoureus demerarae meridae

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
6
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
29
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 13.49
EDGE Score: 2.67
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  75.8 grams
Male Weight [3]  143 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  90 %
Forages - Scansorial [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [3]  10 months 23 days
Litter Size [3]  8
Maximum Longevity [3]  2 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  7 inches (17 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Atlantic Forest Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay No
Cerrado Brazil No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

Prey / Diet

Cecropia glaziovii[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Leopardus pardalis (Ocelot)[5]

Consumers

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
♦ 4Diet of two marsupials, Lutreolina crassicaudata and Micoureus demerarae, in a coastal Atlantic Forest island of Brazil, N.C. CÁCERES, I.R. GHIZONI-JR and M.E. GRAIPEL, Mammalia, t. 66, no 3, 2002 : 331-340.
♦ 5Leopardus pardalis, Julie L. Murray and Gregory L. Gardner, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 548, pp. 1-10 (1997)
♦ 6International Flea Database
♦ 7Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
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