Ningbing fat-tailed pouch mouse
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The ningbing fat-tailed pouch mouse ( Pseudantechinus ningbing ) is a species of marsupial from the genus of the fat- tailed pouch mouse .
This pouch mouse resembles Pseudantechinus macdonnellensis , but the females have four and not six teats like P. macdonnellensis . In addition, the tail of this species is longer, long hair grows at its base and the rest is a bit scaly.
The species lives in northeastern Western Australia in the Kimberley region , it inhabits rocky areas in a wide range of vegetation types.
Little is known about the behavior of Pseudantechinus ningbing . The mating takes place in June, the gestation period is comparatively long with 45 to 52 days. Young animals are born in July and August and weaned in October through November.
The species is listed as harmless ( least concern ) by the IUCN , but this is considered obsolete.
This species was discovered by the biologist Harry Butler in Ningbing , an abandoned station in the Kimberley region. For a long time it was considered con-specific with Pseudantechinus macdonnellensis . DJ Kitchener described it as an independent species in 1988. The specific epithet ningbing denotes the location of the type.
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- Groves, Colin (November 16, 2005). in Wilson, DE, and Reeder, DM (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 27. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4 .
- Menkhorst, Peter (2001). A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia. Oxford University Press, 62.
- Woolley, PA (1995), “Ningbing Pseudantechinus”, in Strahan, Ronald, The Mammals of Australia, Reed Books, pp. 79-80
- Pseudantechinus ningbing in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2006. Posted by: Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group, 2000. Retrieved on 4 June of 2008.