Cercartetus lepidus
Cercartetus lepidus ( Cercartetus lepidus ; in English: The Tasmanian Pygmy Possum or the Little Pygmy Possum ) is smallest of the Possum S Pygmies in Australia.
Description
Measuring 64 mm of the head to the tail, with a tail of 71 mm, it is smallest of the possums. Like all the possums, it resembles a mouse with its gray peeling, som pointed muzzle aves its eyes projecting, its long prehensile stripped tail. In, winter, it enters in lethargy to decrease its consumption of energy.
Distribution and habitat
One believed it living only in Tasmanie; one also finds it on the Australian continent, in the Bassin of Murray-Darling in Australia Méridionale and in the State of Victoria like in the island of Kangaroo Island. He lives the sclerophyllous forests or he lives at the top of the trees, nesting in a cavity of the trunk.
Food
It is an animal which nourishes insects and small lizards
Reproduction
The female generally has four small that it keeps six weeks in its marsupium.
References
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Marsupial Australasian & Monotreme Specialist Group (1996). Cercartetus lepidus. 2006 IUCN Red List off Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved one 12 May 2006.
- Groves, Hake (16 November 2005). in Wilson, D.E., and Reeder, D.M. (eds): Mammal Species off the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Near, 45. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
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