Isoodon obesulus

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
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• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,397 meters (0 to 4,583 feet).[1]

Ecology: The Southern Brown Bandicoot inhabits a range of forest , woodland, shrub , and heath communities (Paul 2008). It is omnivorous and active in both the day and night. Females give birth to up to six young, but usually only two survive until they are weaned (Paul 2008). (Ref. 280326).

List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.4     Forest - Temperate   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.4     Shrubland - Temperate   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     3.8     Shrubland - Mediterranean-type Shrubby Vegetation   
  
•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.4     Grassland - Temperate   
  
•     4.5     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.2     Artificial/Terrestrial - Pastureland   
  
•     14.4     Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 28-Nov-2006

Genetic evidence suggests that Isoodon obesulus is closely related to I. auratus, and they may in fact be the same species (Pope et al. 2001, Zenger et al. 2005). The two forms/species appear to have remained allopatric since long before European arrival, even during the Pleistocene (McKenzie et al. 2008). (Ref. 280326).

Similar Species

Members of the genus Isoodon

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 10 species and subspecies in this genus:

I. auratus (Golden Bandicoot) · I. auratus auratus (Golden Bandicoot) · I. auratus barrowensis (Golden Bandicoot) · I. macrourus (Northern Brown Bandicoot) · I. macrourus macrourus (Northern Brown Bandicoot) · I. obesulus (Nuyts Southern Brown Bandicoot) · I. obesulus fusciventer (Quenda) · I. obesulus nauticus (Southern Brown Bandicoot) · I. obesulus obesulus (Southern Brown Bandicoot) · I. obesulus peninsulae (Southern Brown Bandicoot)

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Further Reading

• An atlas of the chromosome numbers in animals. Ames, Iowa State College Press[1951] url p. 263.
• Biosphere Reserves, Compilation 4, October 1986: programme on man and the biosphere (MAB) IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre url p. 44.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 15, p. 34.
• General embryological information service. Utrecht, Hubrecht Laboratory. url p. 113, p. 151, p. 58.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url , , , p. 101, p. 102, p. 118, p. 118, p. 119, p. 120, p. 123, p. 132, p. 141, p. 142, p. 146, p. 147, p. 150, p. 154, p. 158, p. 205, p. 206, p. 209, p. 210, p. 214, p. 261, p. 276, p. 30, p. 31, p. 32, p. 57, p. 58, p. 60, p. 62, p. 65, p. 67, p. 7, p. 71, p. 79, p. 84, p. 91.
• Readings in mammalogy / selected from the original literature and introduced with comments by J. Knox Jones, Jr., and Sydney Anderson. [Lawrence, Kans.]: Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 1970. url p. 137.
• The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History. London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd. url p. 678.
• The Australian zoologist. Sydney, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales url p. 331.
• The mammalian fauna of Madura Cave, Western Australia, Ernest L. Lundelius, Jr. -- William D. Turnbull --. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1981. url p. 1, p. 31, p. 32, p. 37, p. 38, p. 43, p. 69, p. 71, p. v, p. vi, p. vii.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• Friend, T., Morris, K., van Weenen, J., Winter, J. & Menkhorst, P. 2008. Isoodon obesulus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 01February2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 26, 2007:

• Berkeley Natural History Museums, University of California Museum of Paleontology DiGIR provider
• Field Museum, Mammal specimens
• Michigan State University Museum, Vertebrate specimens
• OZCAM
• Provider, Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 107493
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-709547
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13814578
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 552656
• IUCN ID: 216831
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 4841

Footnotes

1. Mean = 103.300 meters (338.911 feet), Standard Deviation = 228.060 based on 267 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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