🐀Virginia opossum
O Gambá-da-Virgínia (Didelphis virginiana), denominado também de gambá norte-americano, opossum ou possum, zarigüeya americana, tlacuache ou mykure, é um dos integrantes da família dos gambás, encontrado do sul do Canadá ao norte da Costa Rica , sendo o marsupial mais difundido do hemisfério norte e o único nas latitudes acima do Rio Grande. É um animal noturno e solitário, de hábitos lentos e oportunistas, com o porte aproximado ao de um gato doméstico. O gambá-da-Virgínia é familiar aos norte-americanos por habitar as áreas urbanas e se alimentar junto às lixeiras, jardins e pilhas de composto, em busca da comida dos animais domésticos e de ratos. Sua atração por carniça na beira das estradas o torna uma vítima potencial de atropelamentos.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.
- Body mass
- 1.41 kg
- Body length
- 0.4 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 7 years
Everything we know about the Virginia opossum
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass1.41 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 3 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length0.4 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass7.32 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan7 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 6.6 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length2.04 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity226 daysCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation12 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Litter sizeabout 7COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 15AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelOmnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleNocturnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range0.58 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density6.15 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l1.4 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Virginia opossum yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderDidelphimorphia
- ›familyDidelphidae
- ›genusDidelphis
- ›speciesDidelphis virginiana
- classMammals · Mammalia
- familyDidelphidae
- subfamilyDidelphinae
- genusDidelphis
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- orderDidelphimorphia
- familyDidelphidae
- subfamilyDidelphinae
- genusDidelphis
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