Swamp broad-footed pouch mouse
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Swamp broad-footed pouch mouse ( Antechinus minimus ) |
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( E. Geoffroy , 1803) |
Antechinus minimus is a species of bag mammal from the genus of the broad-foot bag mice ( Antechinus ).
distribution and habitat
This pouch-mouse lives on the south-east coast of Australia , in the southern Central Highlands and the alpine areas of Victoria and the extreme south of South Australia near Mount Gambier . Furthermore, the species occurs in Tasmania and on the Bass Strait Islands King Island and Flinders Island .
The species’s habitat is open forests, non-grazed, moist and dense heathland and swampy grassland with bracken and sour grass .
Way of life
Antechinus minimus is active at night and partly at dusk, but also during the day. The gestation period in Tasmania is between May and July. After a gestation period of 28 to 32 days, 6 to 8 young are born between July and August. On the mainland, reproduction occurs about a month earlier, the reason for this is unknown. The females survive another year, but the males, like all other species of broad-footed pouch mice, die after the mating season ends. The main diet of this species consists of insects .
threat
Antechinus minimus is listed as safe (least concern) by the IUCN .
Systematics
This species was described in 1803 as the first representative of the genus Antechinus by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire . He assigned them to the genus of the bag marten , which is why they received the specific epithet minimus ( Latin for the smallest).
Two subspecies are recognized:
- At the. minimus inhabits Tasmania and the islands of the Bass Strait .
- At the. maritimus lives on the Australian mainland.
swell
- Groves, Colin in Wilson, DE and Reeder, DM (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition. Johns Hopkins University Press: pp. 29-30. ISBN 0-801-88221-4 .
- Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group (1996): Antechinus minimus . 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved May 9, 2006.
- Wainer, JW & Wilson, BA (1995), Yellow-footed Antechinus , in Strahan, Ronald: The Mammals of Australia. Reed Books: pp. 86-88, ISBN 0-7301-0484-2
- Menkhorst, Peter (2001): A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia. Oxford University Press: p. 56. ISBN 0-19-550870-X .
- Menkhorst, Peter (1996): Mammals of Victoria. Oxford University Press, pp. 44-45. ISBN 0-19-553733-5 .
Web link
- Antechinus minimus inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: van Weenen, J. & Menkhorst, P., 2008. Retrieved October 12, 2013.