Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Rodentia > Erethizontidae > Coendou > Coendou rothschildiCoendou rothschildi (Rothschild's porcupine)Rothschild's porcupine, Coendou rothschildi, is a species of rodent in the family Erethizontidae.It is usually considered endemic to Panama. A population in western Ecuador belongs either to this species or to Coendou bicolor. Because of the confusion over its taxonomic status and because its ecology is little known, the IUCN has listed its conservation status as "data deficient". |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 4.04 EDGE Score: 1.62 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 4.409 lbs (2.00 kg) |  | | Diet [2] | Frugivore, Herbivore | | Diet - Fruit [2] | 30 % | | Diet - Plants [2] | 70 % | | Forages - Arboreal [2] | 100 % | | | Female Maturity [3] | 1 year 10 months | | | Litter Size [3] | 1 | | Maximum Longevity [3] | 9 years | | Nocturnal [2] | Yes | | Snout to Vent Length [3] | 24 inches (60 cm) |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
Use |
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Chocó-Darién moist forests |
Colombia, Panama |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Eastern Panamanian montane forests |
Colombia, Panama |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Isthmian-Atlantic moist forests |
Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Isthmian-Pacific moist forests |
Costa Rica, Panama |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Panamanian dry forests |
Panama |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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South American Pacific mangroves |
Colombia, Panama, Ecuador |
Neotropic |
Mangroves |
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Southern Mesoamerican Pacific mangroves |
Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama |
Neotropic |
Mangroves |
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Talamancan montane forests |
Costa Rica, Panama |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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| Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Mesoamerica |
Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama |
No |
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Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena |
Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru |
No |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Felisa A. Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons, S. K. Morgan Ernest, Kate E. Jones, Dawn M. Kaufman, Tamar Dayan, Pablo A. Marquet, James H. Brown, and John P. Haskell. 2003. Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84:3403 ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 4Leopardus pardalis, Julie L. Murray and Gregory L. Gardner, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 548, pp. 1-10 (1997) ♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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