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Periplaneta americana (American cockroach; ship cockroach; Bombay canary)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The American cockroach (Periplaneta americana), also colloquially known as the waterbug, but not a true waterbug since it is not aquatic, or misidentified as the palmetto bug (see Florida woods cockroach for the differences), is the largest species of common cockroach, and often considered a pest. It is also known as the ship cockroach, kakerlac, and Bombay canary.
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Attributes

Speed [1]  1.79 MPH (.8 m/s)

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Carlsbad Caverns National Park II 15448 New Mexico, United States
Severn Estuary/ Môr Hafren 182155 England/Wales, United Kingdom

Prey / Diet

Myotis austroriparius (southeastern myotis)[2]

Predators

Batrachostomus cornutus (Sunda Frogmouth)[3]

Consumers

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1THE LOCOMOTION OF THE COCKROACH PERIPLANETA AMERICANA, FRED DELCOMYN, J. Exp. Biol. (1971), 54, 443-452
♦ 2Myotis austroriparius, Clyde Jones and Richard W. Manning, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 332, pp. 1-3 (1989)
♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0