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Dasyurus spartacus (Bronze Quoll)

Synonyms: Satanellus spartacus

Wikipedia Abstract

The bronze quoll (Dasyurus spartacus) is a species of quoll found only in the Trans Fly savanna and grasslands of New Guinea and West Papua. It was discovered in the early 1970s when five specimens were collected, but only described in 1987 when Dr. Stephen Van Dyck of the Queensland Museum examined them and recognised their distinctness. As of February 2013 there are twelve public museum specimens, 8 from traps and 4 from local hunters. Very little is known of it; it was previously thought to be an outlying population of the western quoll (Dasyurus geoffroii).
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
24
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.12
EDGE Score: 2.33
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.852 lbs (840 g)
Female Weight [1]  1.499 lbs (680 g)
Male Weight [1]  2.205 lbs (1.00 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [1]  47.1 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Endothermic [2]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  80 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Gestation [1]  19 days
Litter Size [1]  7
Maximum Longevity [1]  3 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [1]  15 inches (37 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Trans Fly savanna and grasslands Indonesia, Papua New Guinea Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Tonda Wildlife Management Area 1509658 Papua New Guinea      
Wasur-Rawa Biru National Park 605464 Papua, Indonesia  

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
♦ 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
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