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Thylogale stigmatica (Red-legged Pademelon)

Synonyms: Halmaturus stigmaticus (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The red-legged pademelon (Thylogale stigmatica) is a species of small macropod found on the northeastern coast of Australia and in New Guinea. In Australia it has a scattered distribution from the tip of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland to around Tamworth in New South Wales. In New Guinea it is found in south central lowlands. There are four subspecies of the red-legged pademelon: \n* T. s. stigmatica, found in the Cairns region of Queensland; \n* T. s. coxenii, found in Cape York Peninsula; \n* T. s. orimo, found in New Guinea; \n* T. s. wilcoxi, found in southern Queensland and New South Wales.
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Infraspecies

Thylogale stigmatica coxenii (Red-legged pademelon)
Thylogale stigmatica oriomo (Red-legged pademelon)
Thylogale stigmatica stigmatica (Red-legged pademelon)
Thylogale stigmatica wilcoxi (Red-legged pademelon)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
18
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.73
EDGE Score: 1.91
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  9.039 lbs (4.10 kg)
Diet [2]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  11 months 8 days
Gestation [1]  29 days
Litter Size [1]  1
Litters / Year [3]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  10 years
Nocturnal [4]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  24 inches (60 cm)
Weaning [1]  8 months 12 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Crater Lakes National Park II 2320 Queensland, Australia
Dunggir National Park II 6402 New South Wales, Australia
Lamington National Park II 50970 Queensland, Australia

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
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♦ 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
♦ 4Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 6Jorrit 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.
♦ 7International Flea Database
♦ 8Species 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