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Spilocuscus maculatus (Common Spotted Cuscus)

Synonyms: Phalanger maculatus; Phalangista maculata (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The common spotted cuscus (Spilocuscus maculatus) is a cuscus, a marsupial that lives in the Cape York region of Australia, New Guinea, and nearby smaller islands.
View Wikipedia Record: Spilocuscus maculatus

Infraspecies

Spilocuscus maculatus chrysorrhous
Spilocuscus maculatus goldiei (Short-tailed spotted cuscus)
Spilocuscus maculatus maculatus (Short-tailed spotted cuscus)
Spilocuscus maculatus nudicaudatus (Short-tailed spotted cuscus)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
5
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
28
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 11.76
EDGE Score: 2.55
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  7.716 lbs (3.50 kg)
Diet [2]  Frugivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  40 %
Diet - Plants [2]  60 %
Forages - Arboreal [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [3]  7 months 12 days
Male Maturity [1]  8 months 3 days
Gestation [1]  13 days
Litter Size [1]  2
Litters / Year [3]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  17 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  18 inches (46 cm)
Weaning [1]  8 months

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 
Bertiella kapul <Unverified Name>[5]
Papuapsylla alticola[6]

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
♦ 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
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