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Acrobates pygmaeus (Feather-tailed Glider)

Synonyms: Didelphis pygmaea; Didelphys pygmaea (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The feathertail glider (Acrobates pygmaeus), also known as the pygmy gliding possum, pygmy glider, pygmy phalanger, flying phalanger and flying mouse, is a species of marsupial native to eastern Australia. It is the world's smallest gliding mammal and is named for its long feather-shaped tail.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
11
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
37
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 21.8
EDGE Score: 3.13
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  13 grams
Birth Weight [1]  0.0178 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Nectarivore, Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  80 %
Diet - Nectar [2]  10 %
Diet - Plants [2]  10 %
Forages - Arboreal [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  8 months
Male Maturity [1]  1 year
Litter Size [1]  3
Litters / Year [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  9 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  3.15 inches (8 cm)
Weaning [1]  3 months 9 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Predators

Hoplocephalus stephensii (Stephen's banded snake)[4]

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
♦ 4Life 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
♦ 5International Flea Database
♦ 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.
♦ 7Species 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