Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Peramelemorphia > Peramelidae > Echymipera > Echymipera rufescens

Echymipera rufescens (Long-nosed Echymipera)

Synonyms: Perameles rufescens (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The long-nosed echymipera (Echymipera rufescens), or long-nosed spiny bandicoot, is a species of marsupial in the family Peramelidae. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
View Wikipedia Record: Echymipera rufescens

Infraspecies

Echymipera rufescens australis (Rufous spiny bandicoot) (Attributes)
Echymipera rufescens rufescens (Rufous spiny bandicoot)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
25
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 10.12
EDGE Score: 2.41
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  2.577 lbs (1.169 kg)
Female Weight [1]  1.929 lbs (875 g)
Male Weight [1]  3.225 lbs (1.463 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [1]  67.2 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  40 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  60 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Litter Size [3]  2.2
Litters / Year [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [3]  3 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [1]  19 inches (48 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Wasur-Rawa Biru National Park 605464 Papua, Indonesia  

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Australiformis semoni[5]
Parastivalius novaeguinae[6]
Parastivalius novaeguineae <Unverified Name>[7]
Pygiopsylla hoplia[6]
Pygiopsylla phiola[7]

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
♦ 4"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 6International Flea Database
♦ 7Species 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