Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Didelphimorphia > Didelphidae > Thylamys > Thylamys pallidior

Thylamys pallidior (White-bellied Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum)

Synonyms: Marmosa elegans palliodor

Wikipedia Abstract

The white-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum (Thylamys pallidior) is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
8
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
32
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 16.32
EDGE Score: 2.85
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  14.9 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  80 %
Diet - Vertibrates [2]  10 %
Forages - Scansorial [2]  100 %
Litter Size [3]  10
Litters / Year [3]  2
Maximum Longevity [3]  2 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  3.543 inches (9 cm)

Ecoregions

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

Prey / Diet

Prosopis flexuosa (Pauta Negro)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Dolichotis patagonum (Patagonian cavy)1
Microcavia australis (southern mountain cavy)1

Predators

Bubo magellanicus (Lesser Horned Owl)[4]
Strix chacoensis (Chaco Owl)[5]
Tyto alba (Barn Owl)[4]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Felisa A. Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons, S. K. Morgan Ernest, Kate E. Jones, Dawn M. Kaufman, Tamar Dayan, Pablo A. Marquet, James H. Brown, and John P. Haskell. 2003. Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84:3403
♦ 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
♦ 4Thylamys pallidior (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae), JANET K. BRAUN, NATHAN L. PRATT, AND MICHAEL A. MARES, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 42(856):90–98 (2010)
♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
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