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Isoodon obesulus (Southern Brown Bandicoot)

Synonyms: Didelphis obesula

Wikipedia Abstract

The southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus) is a short-nosed bandicoot, a type of marsupial, found mostly in southern Australia. It is also known as the quenda in South Western Australia (from the Noongar word kwernt).
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Infraspecies

Isoodon obesulus nauticus (Southern brown bandicoot) (Attributes)
Isoodon obesulus obesulus (Synonym of Isoodon obesulus, Southern brown bandicoot)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
25
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 10.04
EDGE Score: 2.4
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.543 lbs (700 g)
Birth Weight [1]  0.35 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  7 months
Gestation [1]  15 days
Litter Size [1]  3
Litters / Year [1]  2.2
Maximum Longevity [1]  7 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  14 inches (35 cm)
Weaning [1]  62 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Southwest Australia Australia No

Prey / Diet

Agrostis capillaris (colonial bent)[4]
Lembophyllum divulsum[4]
Oncopera intricata (Corbie)[4]
Oncopera rufobrunnea (Winter corbie)[4]
Trifolium repens (Ladino Clover)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Dasyurus viverrinus (Eastern Quoll)2
Tachyglossus aculeatus (Short-beaked Echidna)1
Trichosurus vulpecula (Common Brushtail)1

Predators

Echidnophaga liopus[5]

Consumers

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
♦ 4Observations on the diet of the southern brown bandicoot, Isoodon obesulus (Marsupialia: Peramelidae), in southern Tasmania, Darren G. Quin, Australian Mammal Society, June 1988
♦ 5Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
♦ 6International Flea Database
♦ 7Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 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.
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