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Phascogale tapoatafa (Brush-tailed Phascogale)

Synonyms: Phascogale tapoatafa tapoatafa; Viverra tapoatafa (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa), also known by its Australian native name tuan, the common wambenger or the black-tailed phascogale, is a rat-sized arboreal carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae, characterized by a tuft of black silky hairs on the terminal portion of its tail. Males of this species do not live past the age of one, as they die after reproducing.
View Wikipedia Record: Phascogale tapoatafa

Infraspecies

Phascogale tapoatafa kimberleyensis
Phascogale tapoatafa wambenger

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
34
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.59
EDGE Score: 2.95
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  177 grams
Female Weight [1]  150 grams
Male Weight [1]  205 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  36.7 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Ectothermic [2]  30 %
Diet - Endothermic [2]  40 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  30 %
Forages - Arboreal [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [3]  1 year
Male Maturity [3]  1 year
Gestation [3]  29 days
Litter Size [3]  6
Litters / Year [3]  1
Maximum Longevity [3]  6 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [1]  9 inches (23 cm)
Weaning [3]  4 months 2 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Croajingolong National Park II 217067 Victoria, Australia
Dunggir National Park II 6402 New South Wales, Australia
Kakadu National Park II 4744348 Northern Territory, Australia
Maria National Park II 5735 New South Wales, Australia

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Southwest Australia Australia No

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
♦ 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
♦ 3de 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
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 5International Flea Database
♦ 6Species 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
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