Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Didelphimorphia > Didelphidae > Micoureus > Micoureus reginaMicoureus regina (Bare-tailed Woolly Mouse Opossum)Synonyms: Marmosa regina (homotypic) The bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum (Marmosa regina) or short-furred woolly mouse opossum is a South American marsupial of the family Didelphidae. Its range includes Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. It is found in tropical rainforest in the westernmost portion of the Amazon Basin and the eastern foothills of the Andes, at elevations up to 1634 m. It was formerly assigned to the genus Micoureus, which was made a subgenus of Marmosa in 2009. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 13.49 EDGE Score: 2.67 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 118.6 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore | | Diet - Fruit [2] | 10 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 90 % | | Forages - Scansorial [2] | 100 % | | | Maximum Longevity [3] | 1 year | | Nocturnal [2] | Yes | | Snout to Vent Length [3] | 6 inches (15 cm) |
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Apure-Villavicencio dry forests |
Colombia, Venezuela |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Caqueta moist forests |
Brazil, Columbia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Cordillera Oriental montane forests |
Colombia, Venezuela |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Eastern Cordillera real montane forests |
Ecuador, Colombia, Peru |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Iquitos varzea |
Brazil, Peru, Bolivia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Magdalena Valley dry forests |
Colombia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Magdalena Valley montane forests |
Colombia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Napo moist forests |
Colombia, Venezuela, Peru |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Peruvian Yungas |
Peru |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Purus varzea |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Southwest Amazon moist forests |
Peru, Brazil, Bolivia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Ucayali moist forests |
Peru |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Tropical Andes |
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela |
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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 |
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
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