🐾Greater bilby
Större kaninpunggrävling (Macrotis lagotis) är ett pungdjur i ordningen grävlingpungdjur (Peramelemorphia) och den enda recenta arten i familjen kaninpunggrävlingar. Artens närmaste släkting, mindre kaninpunggrävling, dog ut under 1900-talet. Artepitetet i det vetenskapliga namnet är bildat av de grekiska orden lagos (hare) och otous (öra). Det syftar på öronen som liknar harens öron. Ursprungligen hade epitet en annan betydelse än släktnamnet på grund av att arten listades i släktet Perameles.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.
- Body mass
- 1.27 kg
- Body length
- 0.46 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 9.99 years
Everything we know about the Greater bilby
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass1.27 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1.3 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length0.46 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass6.81 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan9.99 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 9.6 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length3.24 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity178 daysCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation16 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 17 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter sizeabout 2COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 2AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelHerbivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleNocturnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density8 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l1.3 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 Greater bilby yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderPeramelemorphia
- ›familyThylacomyidae
- ›genusMacrotis
- ›speciesMacrotis lagotis
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderPeramelemorphia
- familyThylacomyidae
- genusMacrotis
All 12 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- orderPeramelemorphia
- familyThylacomyidae
- genusMacrotis
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