Phascogale tapoatafa

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Near Threatened

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,911 meters (0 to 9,551 feet).[1]

Ecology: This species is now largely confined to dry sclerophyll forests and open woodlands that contain hollow-bearing trees . It occurs more rarely in wetter forests. Brush-tailed Phascogales are arboreal , nocturnal , and largely solitary. Females typically give birth to eight young, or six to eight in south-western Australia (Soderquist and Rhind 2008). Males die soon after the breeding season , and females can live up to three years, but usually only produce one litter (Soderquist and Rhind 2008).[2].

List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Phascogale tapoatafa (Meyer, 1793) • Phascogale tapoatafa ssp. tapoatafa

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 28-Nov-2006

Recent taxonomic work suggests that Phascogale tapoatafa sensu lato is composed of more than one species (Rhind et al. 2001, Spencer et al. 2001).[2].

Similar Species

Members of the genus Phascogale

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 5 species and subspecies in this genus:

P. calura (Red-Tailed Phascogale) · P. pirata (Northern Brush-Tailed Phascogale) · P. tapoatafa (Brush-Tailed Phascogale) · P. tapoatafa pirata (Brush-Tailed Phascogale) · P. tapoatafa tapoatafa (Brush-Tailed Phascogale)

More Info

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Further Reading

• Extinct and vanishing mammals of the Old World. Illus. by Earl L. Poole. New York, American Committee for International Wild Life Protection, 1945. url p. 26, p. 839, p. 846.
• General function of the gall bladder from the evolutionary standpoint, by Frank W. Gorham and Andrew Conway Ivy. 22 1938 Chicago, 1938. url p. 187.
• The Hamilton fauna; a late Pliocene mammalian fauna from the Grange Burn, Victoria, Australia / [by] William D. Turnbull -- and Ernest L. Lundelius, Jr. -- [Chicago]Field Museum Press, 1970. url p. 11.
• The IUCN Mammal Red Data Book. Part 1: threatened mammalian taxa of the Americas and the Australasian zoogeographic region (excluding Cetacea) IUCN url p. 79, p. 79.
• The mammalian fauna of Madura Cave, Western Australia: Ernest L. Lundelius, Jr. -- and William D. Turnbull --. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1978. url , p. 1, p. 106, p. 107, p. 15, p. 22, p. 24, p. 25, p. 26, p. 28, p. 30, p. 31, p. 37, p. 44, p. 45, p. 46, p. 63.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed February 5, 2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Menkhorst, P., Rhind, S. & Ellis, M. 2008. Phascogale tapoatafa. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 03February2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 09, 2007:

• Michigan State University Museum, Vertebrate specimens
• OZCAM
• Provider, Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• University of Alaska Museum of the North, University of New Mexico Museum of Southwestern Biology Mammal Collection
• University of Washington Burke Museum, Mammal Specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 107451
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-552622
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13821120
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 552622
• IUCN ID: 231719
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 5248

Footnotes

1. Mean = 28.790 meters (94.455 feet), Standard Deviation = 45.670 based on 129,933 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. Menkhorst, P., Rhind, S. & Ellis, M. 2008. Phascogale tapoatafa. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 03 February 2012. [back]

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