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Sminthopsis macroura (Stripe-faced Dunnart)

Wikipedia Abstract

The striped-faced dunnart (Sminthopsis macroura) is a small, Australian, nocturnal, "marsupial mouse," part of Dasyuridae family. The species distribution occurs throughout much of inland central and northern Australia, occupying a range of arid and semi-arid habitats. While the species has a broad distribution range, it has been declining across much of Australia, including the western region of New South Wales (NSW). This decline is due to a several threatening process, primarily habitat degradation. The three subspecies are as follows:
View Wikipedia Record: Sminthopsis macroura

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
25
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 9.55
EDGE Score: 2.36
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  20 grams
Birth Weight [1]  0.01 grams
Male Weight [3]  20 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Ectothermic [2]  10 %
Diet - Endothermic [2]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  80 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  3 months 29 days
Male Maturity [1]  5 months 9 days
Gestation [1]  12 days
Litter Size [1]  4
Litters / Year [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  5 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Weaning [1]  70 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Purnululu National Park II 604999 Western Australia, Australia
Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park II 332429 Northern Territory, Australia

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Bainechina rossiae <Unverified Name>[4]
Chabaudechina presidentei <Unverified Name>[4]
Coelomotrema antechinomes <Unverified Name>[4]
Toxoplasma gondii[5]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de 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
♦ 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
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 5Species 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