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Lagidium viscacia (Mountain viscacha)

Synonyms: Lagidium lutescens; Lepus viscacia (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The southern viscacha (Lagidium viscacia) is a species of rodent in the family Chinchillidae found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. It is a colonial animal living in small groups in rocky mountain areas. It has long ears and hind legs and resembles a rabbit in appearance apart from its long, bushy tail.
View Wikipedia Record: Lagidium viscacia

Infraspecies

Lagidium viscacia boxi
Lagidium viscacia cuscus
Lagidium viscacia cuvieri
Lagidium viscacia famatinae
Lagidium viscacia lockwoodi
Lagidium viscacia moreni
Lagidium viscacia perlutea
Lagidium viscacia sarae
Lagidium viscacia tontalis
Lagidium viscacia tucumana
Lagidium viscacia viatorum
Lagidium viscacia viscacia
Lagidium viscacia vulcani

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
5
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
27
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 11.62
EDGE Score: 2.53
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  3.395 lbs (1.54 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  260 grams
Diet [2]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Gestation [1]  4 months 14 days
Litter Size [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  20 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  18 inches (45 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forests Chile No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

Predators

Leopardus jacobitus (Andean Mountain Cat)[4]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 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
♦ 4Oreailurus jacobita, Eric Yensen and Kevin L. Seymour, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 644, pp. 1–6 (2000)
♦ 5International Flea Database
♦ 6Gibson, 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
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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