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Antechinus stuartii (Brown Antechinus)

Wikipedia Abstract

The brown antechinus (Antechinus stuartii), also known as Stuart's antechinus and Macleay's marsupial mouse, is a species of small carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae. The males die after their first breeding season, and the species holds the world record for being the world's smallest semelparous mammal.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
21
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.15
EDGE Score: 2.1
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  27 grams
Birth Weight [2]  0.016 grams
Female Weight [1]  22 grams
Male Weight [1]  33 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  50 %
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Endothermic [3]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  90 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [2]  9 months 15 days
Male Maturity [2]  9 months 15 days
Gestation [2]  30 days
Litter Size [2]  7
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [2]  5 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Weaning [2]  3 months 16 days

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Brigalow tropical savanna Australia Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Eastern Australian temperate forests Australia Australasia Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Einasleigh upland savanna Australia Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Queensland tropical rain forests Australia Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests  
Southeast Australia temperate forests Australia Australasia Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Cercartetus nanus (Eastern Pygmy Possum)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Hoplocephalus bungaroides (Broad-headed Snake)[5]
Hoplocephalus stephensii (Stephen's banded snake)[6]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan 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
♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 3Hamish 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
♦ 4Cercartetus nanus, JAMIE M. HARRIS, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 815:1–10 (2008)
♦ 5Ecological characteristics of a threatened snake species, Hoplocephalus bungaroides (Serpentes, Elapidae), Jonathan K. Webb and Richard Shine, Animal Conservation (1998) 1, 185–193
♦ 6Life history attributes of the threatened Australian snake (Stephen's banded snake Hoplocephalus stephensii, Elapidae), Mark Fitzgerald, Richard Shine, Francis Lemckert, Biological Conservation 119 (2004) 121–128
♦ 7International Flea Database
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 9Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 10Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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