what is the scientific name of Australia's most endangered marsupial and one of the world's most endangered mammals in which Gummivena is a fungal genus is found
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Gummivena Gummivena is a fungal genus in the Mesophelliaceae family. The genus is monotypic, containing the single truffle-like species Gummivena potorooi, found in Western Australia. Described as new to science in 2002, "Gummivena" is intermediate in form between "Castoreum" and "Gummiglobus", and has a gleba with "veins" of gummy tissue and a three-layered peridium. The specific epithet "potorooi" refers the fact that the fungus is found only in the range of the rare and endangered species Gilbert's potoroo ("Potorous gilbertii").
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Gilbert's potoroo Gilbert's potoroo ("Potorous gilbertii"), sometimes called the "rat-kangaroo" or "garlgyte", is Australia's most endangered marsupial and one of the world's most endangered mammals. It is a small nocturnal marsupial which lives in small groups or colonies. It has long hind feet and front feet with curved claws which it uses to dig for food. Its body has large amounts of fur which helps with insulation, and its fur ranges between brown and grey; the color fading on its belly. This potoroo has a long, thin snout curving downward that it uses to smell its surroundings; this trait is common in all potoroo species. Its eyes appear to bulge out of its face and look as though they are on an angle and its ears are almost invisible, buried under thick fur. Male and female body types are very similar and are both within the same size range. Adult females range in weight from 708–1205 g (including pouch young where present), whereas adult males range in weight from 845–1200 g.
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Meridiolestida Meridiolestida is a clade of non-therian mammals from South America and Africa, and potentially also Australia. It is generally classified within Dryolestida, barring one study recovering them as the sister taxa to spalacotheriid symmetrodonts. However, more recent studies have stuck to the dryolestoid interpretation. They differ from northern dryolestoids in the absence of a parastylar hook on the molariform teeth and the lack of a Meckelian groove.
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Desert rat-kangaroo The desert rat-kangaroo ("Caloprymnus campestris"), also called the buff-nosed rat-kangaroo, plains rat-kangaroo or oolacunta, is an extinct small hopping marsupial endemic to desert regions of Central Australia. It was discovered in the early 1840s and described by John Gould in London in 1843, on the basis of three specimens sent to him by George Grey, the governor of South Australia at the time.
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Mouse bandicoot The mouse bandicoot ("Microperoryctes murina") is a species of marsupial in the family Peramelidae. It is endemic to West Papua, Indonesia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
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Water opossum The water opossum ("Chironectes minimus"), also locally known as the yapok , is a marsupial of the family Didelphidae. It is the only living member of its genus, Chironectes. This semiaquatic creature is found in and near the freshwater streams and lakes in Mexico, Central and South America to Argentina, and is the most aquatic living marsupial (the lutrine opossum also has aquatic habits). It is also the only living marsupial in which both sexes have a pouch. The thylacine, commonly referred to as the Tasmanian tiger, also exhibited this trait, but is now believed to be extinct.
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Pilliga mouse Pseudomys pilligaensis, commonly known as the Pilliga mouse or poolkoo, is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. Until recently its distribution was said to be restricted to the Pilliga forest region of New South Wales, Australia but in 2013, a specimen was trapped in the Warrumbungle National Park after a bushfire. There are also suggestions that it is a hybrid between two other species. Its conservation status is currently listed as "Data Deficient".
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Eastern chestnut mouse The eastern chestnut mouse ("Pseudomys gracilicaudatus") is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only in Australia, along the eastern coast from northern Queensland and into New South Wales as far as Jervis Bay.
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Glutinoglossum methvenii Glutinoglossum methvenii is a species of earth tongue fungus that was described as new to science in 2015. It is found in Australia and New Zealand, where it grows on moss and decaying logs in mixed deciduous forests. The specific epithet honours mycologist Andrew Methven.
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Ilaria Ilaria is an extinct genus of marsupial of the family Ilariidae, dating from the Late Oligocene of South Australia. Its diet consisted of leaves.
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Flora of Australia The flora of Australia comprises a vast assemblage of plant species estimated to over 20,000 vascular and 14,000 non-vascular plants, 250,000 species of fungi and over 3,000 lichens. The flora has strong affinities with the flora of Gondwana, and below the family level has a highly endemic angiosperm flora whose diversity was shaped by the effects of continental drift and climate change since the Cretaceous. Prominent features of the Australian flora are adaptations to aridity and fire which include scleromorphy and serotiny. These adaptations are common in species from the large and well-known families Proteaceae ("Banksia"), Myrtaceae ("Eucalyptus" - gum trees), and Fabaceae ("Acacia" - wattle).
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Large-eared tenrec The large-eared tenrec ("Geogale aurita") is a species of mammal in the family Tenrecidae. It is monotypic, being the only species in its genus "Geogale". It is endemic to Madagascar where its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss, but to a lesser extent than was previously thought and is listed by the IUCN as being of "Least Concern".
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German's one-toothed moss mouse German's one-toothed moss mouse ("Pseudohydromys germani") is a species of rodent in the family Muridae which occurs in the mountains of southeastern New Guinea. It has only one molar and only one incisor in each jaw quadrant for a total of eight teeth, less than any other rodents except for its close relative, the one-toothed moss-mouse ("P. ellermani") and the recently described "Paucidentomys", which lacks molars entirely. It is known from only one specimen, an adult male which was caught at an altitude of 1300 m in the village of Munimun, Milne Bay Province, southeastern Papua New Guinea in August 1992. "P. germani" was first described in 2005 by biologist Kristofer Helgen and named after Pavel German, who caught the specimen. It was first described in the genus "Mayermys", but this genus, which only included the two one-molared species, has since been synonymised under "Pseudohydromys" because of the close morphological resemblances among "Mayermys" and the other species now placed in "Pseudohydromys". As a member of the "Xeromys" division within the subfamily Murinae, "P. germani" is related to the false water rat ("Xeromys myoides") of Australia and southern New Guinea and to the three species of "Leptomys", another New Guinean genus, and more distantly to other New Guinean and Australian rodents, including the water rat.
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Planigalinae The former subfamily Planigalinae contained the planigales and the ningauis: very small marsupial carnivores native to Australia which are, like the quolls, antechinuses, dibblers, Tasmanian devil, and many others, part of the biological order Dasyuromorphia: the carnivorous marsupials. The subfamily is now contained in the Sminthopsinae subfamily, and the two genera are split between two different tribes; the planigales are by themselves in their own tribe, while the ningaui are lumped with the dunnarts and the Kultarr.
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Monito del monte The monito del monte (Spanish for "little monkey of the mount") or colocolo opossum, "Dromiciops gliroides", also called "chumaihuén" in Mapudungun, is a diminutive marsupial native only to southwestern South America (Argentina and Chile). It is the only extant species in the ancient order Microbiotheria, and the sole New World representative of the superorder Australidelphia (all other New World marsupials are members of the paraphyletic "Ameridelphia"). The species is nocturnal and arboreal, and lives in thickets of South American mountain bamboo in the Valdivian temperate rain forests of the southern Andes, aided by its partially prehensile tail. It eats primarily insects and other small invertebrates, supplemented with fruit.
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Lesser hairy-footed dunnart The lesser hairy-footed dunnart ("Sminthopsis youngsoni") is a small carnivorous Australian marsupial of the family Dasyuridae. It is a widespread and fairly common species, being found in many desert areas of Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland. Its foraging strategies have been studied by Haythornthwaite and Dickman.
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Threatened fauna of Australia Threatened fauna of Australia are those species and subspecies of birds, fish, frogs, insects, mammals, molluscs, crustaceans and reptiles to be found in Australia that are in danger of becoming extinct. This list is the list proclaimed under the Australian federal Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). The classifications are based on those used by the World Conservation Union (IUCN), however IUCN and Australian rankings do differ.
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Bushy-tailed opossum The bushy-tailed opossum ("Glironia venusta") is an opossum from South America. It was first described by English zoologist Oldfield Thomas in 1912. It is a medium-sized opossum characterized by a large, oval, dark ears, fawn to cinnamon coat with a buff to gray underside, grayish limbs, and a furry tail. Little is known of the behavior of the bushy-tailed opossum; less than 25 specimens are known. It appears to be arboreal (tree-living), nocturnal (active mainly at night) and solitary. The diet probably comprises insects, eggs and plant material. This opossum has been captured from heavy, humid, tropical forests; it has been reported from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. The IUCN classifies it as least concern.
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Forrest's pika Forrest's pika ("Ochotona forresti") is a species of mammal in the family Ochotonidae. It is found in Bhutan, China, India, and Myanmar. The summer dorsal pelage and ventral pelage are dark rufous or blackish brown. The winter dorsal pelage is grayish brown which is slightly lighter in tone than the ventral pelage. The Forrest's pika occurs in southern China (northwestern Yunnan and southeastern Tibet), Bhutan, northeastern India (Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim), and northwestern Myanmar. It is a generalist herbivore. It was assessed by the IUCN Red List of Endangered Species as insufficiently known in 1994, as near threatened in 1996, and re-assessed in 2008 as a species of least concern.
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Wallace's dasyure Wallace's dasyure ("Myoictis wallacei") is a member of the order Dasyuromorphia. This marsupial carnivore is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Specifically, is found on the Aru Islands of the Maluku Province of Indonesia.
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Tana River mangabey The Tana River mangabey ("Cercocebus galeritus") is a highly endangered species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae. Some authorities have included the taxa "agilis" and "sanjei" as subspecies of this species, while others award these full species status.
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Nomascus Nomascus is the second-most speciose genus of gibbons (family Hylobatidae). Originally, this genus was a subgenus of "Hylobates", and all individuals were considered one species, "Hylobates concolor". Species within "Nomascus" are characterized by 52 chromosomes. Some species are all black, some are light with a distinct black tuft of crown fur, and some have distinct, light-colored cheek patches. "Nomascus" is found from southern China (Yunnan) to southern Vietnam, and also on Hainan Island. One species, "Nomascus nasutus," has been deemed "the most critically endangered ape species in the world". All species in this genus are endangered or critically endangered.