蜜袋貂

蜜袋貂
保护状况
	; 无危（IUCN 3.1）[1]
科学分类
界：	动物界 Animalia
门：	脊索动物门 Chordata
纲：	哺乳纲 Mammalia
演化支：	有袋類 Marsupialia
目：	雙門齒目 Diprotodontia
科：	长吻袋貂科 Tarsipedidae
属：	长吻袋貂属 Tarsipes
种：	蜜袋貂 T. rostratus
二名法
	Tarsipes rostratus; Gervais & Verreaux, 1842
	分佈範圍：澳洲西南部
異名
	Tarsipes spencerae Ride, 1970; Tarsipes spenserae Gray, 1842;

蜜袋貂（學名：Tarsipes rostratus）是一種小型有袋類，是長吻袋貂科長吻袋貂屬下唯一的物種。雄性體重約7-11克；雌性有則重約8-16克。身長約6.5-9釐米。夜行性。為最依賴花生存的哺乳類，只食花蜜和花粉，也因此是Banksia attenuata、Banksia coccinea 和 Adenanthos cuneatus等山龍眼科植物的重要授粉媒介[2]。牠們用尖端有刺的長舌頭舔食花蜜。一般壽命為兩年[3]。

參考資料

. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008. [4 April 2014].
Pollen Loads of Honey Possums (Tarsipes Spenserae) and Nonflying Mammal Pollination in Southwestern Australia. Delbert Wiens, Marilyn Renfree and Ronald O. Wooller, Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Vol. 66, No. 4 (1979), pages 830-838, doi:10.2307/2398921
Branson, Andrew; Martyn Bramwell; Robin Kerrod; Christopher O'Toole; Steve Parker; John Stidworthy. . Andromeda Oxford. 1993: 26–27. ISBN 1-871869-16-1.

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[iucn-1] . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008. [4 April 2014].

[2] Pollen Loads of Honey Possums (Tarsipes Spenserae) and Nonflying Mammal Pollination in Southwestern Australia. Delbert Wiens, Marilyn Renfree and Ronald O. Wooller, Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Vol. 66, No. 4 (1979), pages 830-838, doi:10.2307/2398921

[enc_m-3] Branson, Andrew; Martyn Bramwell; Robin Kerrod; Christopher O'Toole; Steve Parker; John Stidworthy. . Andromeda Oxford. 1993: 26–27. ISBN 1-871869-16-1.