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Distoechurus pennatus (Feather-tailed Possum)

Synonyms: Distoechurus amoenus; Distoechurus dryas; Distoechurus neuhassi

Wikipedia Abstract

The feather-tailed possum (Distoechurus pennatus) is a species of marsupial in the family Acrobatidae. It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. It is the only species in the genus Distoechurus.
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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]  52 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Nectarivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  40 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  40 %
Diet - Nectar [2]  20 %
Forages - Arboreal [2]  100 %
Habitat Substrate [3]  Arboreal
Litter Size [1]  1
Litters / Year [4]  2
Maximum Longevity [4]  2 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [4]  4.724 inches (12 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Parc National de Djebel Bou-Hedma National Park II 41580 Tunisia  
Wasur-Rawa Biru National Park 605464 Papua, Indonesia  

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Acanthopsylla enderleini[5]

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
♦ 3Myers, 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
♦ 4Nathan 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
♦ 5International 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