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Cercartetus nanus (Eastern Pygmy Possum)

Synonyms: Phalangista nana

Wikipedia Abstract

The eastern pygmy possum (Cercartetus nanus) is a diprotodont marsupial of south-eastern Australia. Occurring from southern Queensland to eastern South Australia and also Tasmania, it is found in a range of habitats, including rainforest, sclerophyll forest, woodland and heath.
View Wikipedia Record: Cercartetus nanus

Infraspecies

Cercartetus nanus nanus (Eastern pygmy possum)
Cercartetus nanus unicolor (Eastern pygmy possum)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
9
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
34
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 18.42
EDGE Score: 2.97
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  40 grams
Birth Weight [1]  0.0198 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore, Nectarivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Ectothermic [2]  10 %
Diet - Fruit [2]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  20 %
Diet - Nectar [2]  20 %
Diet - Plants [2]  20 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  10 %
Forages - Arboreal [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  6 months 10 days
Male Maturity [1]  6 months 10 days
Litter Size [1]  4
Litters / Year [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  10 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  2.756 inches (7 cm)
Weaning [1]  62 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Banksia ericifolia (Heath-leaved Banksia)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Dasyornis brachypterus (Eastern Bristlebird)1
Petaurus breviceps (Sugar Glider)1
Phylidonyris pyrrhopterus (Crescent Honeyeater)1

Predators

Consumers

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
♦ 4Cercartetus nanus, JAMIE M. HARRIS, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 815:1–10 (2008)
♦ 5Life history attributes of the threatened Australian snake (Stephen's banded snake Hoplocephalus stephensii, Elapidae), Mark Fitzgerald, Richard Shine, Francis Lemckert, Biological Conservation 119 (2004) 121–128
♦ 6International Flea Database
♦ 7Jorrit 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.
♦ 8Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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