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Potorous longipes (Long-footed Potoroo)

Wikipedia Abstract

The long-footed potoroo (Potorous longipes) is a species of potoroo found in southeastern Australia, in a small area around the coastal border between New South Wales and Victoria. It was discovered in 1967 when an adult male was caught in a dog trap in the forest southwest of Bonang, Victoria. It is classified as endangered. Current threats to the species include predation by introduced feral cats and foxes, as well as logging within its limited range.
View Wikipedia Record: Potorous longipes

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Potorous longipes

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
10
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
68
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 19.82
EDGE Score: 5.12
View EDGE Record: Potorous longipes

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  3.638 lbs (1.65 kg)
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  20 %
Diet - Plants [2]  80 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  2 years
Gestation [1]  38 days
Litter Size [1]  1
Litters / Year [3]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  15 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  15 inches (39 cm)
Weaning [1]  5 months 11 days

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Southeast Australia temperate forests Australia Australasia Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Croajingolong National Park II 217067 Victoria, Australia
Rodger River and Mountain Creek Natural Catchment Area 64643 Victoria, Australia      
Snowy River National Park II 283183 Victoria, Australia      
South East Forest National Park II 287502 New South Wales, Australia      

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
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