Red-bellied striped pouch mouse
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Specimen in the Natural History Museum in London |
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The red-bellied striped bag mouse ( Phascolosorex doriae ) is a predatory pouch from the genus of the striped bag mouse ( Phascolosorex ). It occurs in the mountains of western New Guinea. The distribution area runs in the Indonesian provinces of Papua Barat and Papua from the Arfak Mountains on the Vogelkop Peninsula to the Maoke Mountains .
features
Males of the red-bellied striped pouch mouse have a head-trunk length of 15.5 to 22.5 cm, a 15.5 to 19 cm long tail. Females stay a little smaller with head-torso lengths of 15 to 19.5 to 13.5 cm and tail lengths of 15 to 17 cm. Information on weight is not available. The red-bellied striped pouch mouse is therefore significantly larger than its sister species , the narrow-striped striped pouch mouse ( Phascolosorex dorsalis ). Characteristic and eponymous for the genus is a dark stripe on the back, through which the animals can be distinguished from all other pouch mice from New Guinea. The stripe is significantly wider than that of the narrow-stripe striped pouch mouse ( Phascolosorex doriae ). Your tympanic membrane is slightly smaller than that of your relative. The belly of the animals is reddish.
Way of life
The red-bellied striped pouch lives in the New Guinea mountains in mountain rainforests at heights of 900 to 2000 meters. It is probably diurnal and primarily ground dwelling. Details about nutrition and reproduction are not known.
The red-bellied striped pouch mouse is listed by the IUCN as not endangered (least concern) because it is widespread. It is hunted by humans and feral domestic dogs. Their habitat is affected by deforestation and the expanding agricultural areas of humans.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Andrew Baker: Family Dasyuridae (Carnivorous Marsupials). Page 299 in Don E. Wilson , Russell A. Mittermeier : Handbook of the Mammals of the World - Volume 5. Monotremes and Marsupials. Lynx Editions, 2015, ISBN 978-84-96553-99-6
- ↑ Phascolosorex doriae in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2016. Posted by: Woolley, P., Leary, T., Seri, L., Wright, D., Hamilton, S., Helgen, K., Singadan, R. , Dickman, C. & Lunde, D., 2015. Retrieved March 9, 2018.