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Conilurus penicillatus (Brush-tailed rabbit rat)

Synonyms: Conilurus melibius; Hapalotis hemileucurus; Hapalotis melanura

Wikipedia Abstract

The brush-tailed rabbit rat (Conilurus penicillatus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Australia and Papua New Guinea.
View Wikipedia Record: Conilurus penicillatus

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Conilurus penicillatus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
36
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 10.12
EDGE Score: 3.1
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  144 grams
Forages - Arboreal [2]  100 %
Gestation [1]  35 days
Litter Size [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  5 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  7 inches (19 cm)
Weaning [1]  31 days

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Arnhem Land tropical savanna Australia Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Carpentaria tropical savanna Australia Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Kimberly tropical savanna Australia Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Mitchell River National Park 284913 Western Australia, Australia      
Prince Regent River Nature Reserve Ia 1428602 Western Australia, Australia  

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Dasyurus hallucatus (Northern Quoll)[6]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Breinlia presidentei <Unverified Name>[7]
Xenopsylla vexabilis (Rat flea)[8]

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
♦ 4DIETS OF THREE SPECIES OF TREE-RAT, MESEMBRIOMYS GOULDII (GRAY) M. MACRURUS (PETERS) AND CONILURUS PENICILLATUS (GOULD) FROM THE MITCHELL PLATEAU, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, CIVA M. MORTON, Thesis for Degree of Bachelor of Applied Science, University of Canberra, 1992
♦ 5The diet of the brush-tailed rabbit-rat (Conilurus penicillatus) from the monsoonal tropics of the Northern Territory, Australia, Ronald S. C. Firth, Elizabeth Jefferys, John C. Z. Woinarski and Richard A. Noske, Wildlife Research, 2005, 32, 517–523
♦ 6Species Profile and Threats Database, Australian Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
♦ 7Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
♦ 8International 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