Possum

Possum
フクロギツネ AustraliaQueenslandThe Atherton Tablelands
Classification
界 : Animal kingdom Animalia The gate : Chordate gate Chordata Amon : Vertebrate Amon Vertebrata Rope : Mammalia Mammalia Subclass : Beast subclass Theria Lower rope : 後獣下綱 Metatheria Gradation scale : Existence bag gradation scale Marsupialia Eyes : 双前歯目 Diprotodontia Suborder : Couscous suborder Phalangeriformes

Possum (Possum) is an animal in the tree of small to middle model to inhabit Australia, New Guinea, Sulawesi of the Australian region. In addition, フクロギツネ which was a kind of the Possum was put into the New Zealand. I sit astride the plural courses of the 有袋類双前歯目 couscous suborder taxonomically, and there is not the close definition.

The name comes from an opossum (it comes from Algonquin) living in the American continent. These are often confused, and Possum may be called an opossum in Australia, and Kitao Possum may be called Possum in the North America. However, that an opossum is marsupialia same in opossum eyes opossum department taxonomically; is not closely related in the above.

The habits and form

The Possum is nocturnal and hides in the den that I made to the sinuses of the tree in the daytime. Independent or live a life in a pair and the children. It is said that I resemble a squirrel in the Northern Hemisphere for the ecosystem. A thumb and other fingers face, and the finger of the hind leg can catch the branch of the tree. In addition, it seems that a forefinger and the middle finger are close together like one finger. There are few differences of the sex, and distinction is difficult from appearance.

Main Possum

A couscous suborder has 6 department, but a kind called the Possum is in all, and it is to in total approximately 30 kinds.

• Couscous department Phalangeridae
  • A representative course including the Possum. I am greatly separated by Possum and couscous (not a group taxonomic together). フクロギツネ (Common Brushtailed Possum, Trichosurus vulpecula) which is representative in the Possum of this course is largest in approximately 50cm in length, approximately 2.5 kg in weight and Possum and features a brush-formed tail. It is herbivory, but may eat insects. .
• Ring tale department Pseudocheiridae
  • I am named generally with a ring tale (Ringtail Possum) other than a flying phalanger. The representative class ハイイロリングテイル (Common Ringtail Possum, Pseudocheirus peregrinus). Having a long tail, it helps I can coil myself around a branch, and climb the tree. In addition, I wind a twig to make the materials of the nest with a tail and carry it. Herbivory.
• ブーラミス department Burramyidae
  • I am named generally with Pygmy Possum (Pygmy Possum). I feed on insects in Possum in a group having a smallest body. There is the kind that it is ブーラミス (Mountain Pygmy Possum, Burramys parvus), a bag mountain (Eastern Pigmy Possum, Cercartetus nanus). It is the smallest little bag mountain (Tasmanian Pygmy Possum, Cercartetus lepidus), and there is only approximately 6.5cm in length. Because the name of the bag Japanese dormouse hibernates like a Japanese dormouse.
• Tarsiped department Tarsipedidae
  • One kind of 1 genus of the tarsiped (Honey Possum, Tarsipes rostratus). The Possum of the mouse size to grow only in the southwestern part of Australia. I lick honey and the pollen of the flower and take it and, having the tongue which the long tip became into a brush form, do it with bait. Therefore, the tooth degenerates.
• Flying phalanger department Petauridae
  • A bag Asiatic chipmunk (Striped Possum, Dactylopsila trivirgata) which the striped pattern of the back is characterized by, フクロモモンガダマシ Leadbeater's Possum where the extinction is felt uneasy about, a course including Gymnobelideus leadbeateri). I feed on an insect and fruit, sap with omnivorousness.
• Flying mouse department Acrobatidae
  • A false flying phalanger (Feather-tailed Possum, Distoechurus pennatus) belongs.

Allied item

• The expression to be equivalent to if "I sham sleep" in the English zone is play possum.
• The origin of "the Possum" of Possum Vaughn of the rally driver is from this animal.

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