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Cavia aperea (Brazilian guinea pig)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Brazilian guinea pig (Cavia aperea) (preá in Portuguese) is a guinea pig species found in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela. C. aperea has been successfully mated to the domestic guinea pig, Cavia porcellus, though many females become infertile in successive generations.Brazilian guinea pigs are mainly diurnal animals and are narrower and longer than domesticated guinea pigs.
View Wikipedia Record: Cavia aperea

Infraspecies

Cavia aperea aperea
Cavia aperea guianae
Cavia aperea hypoleuca
Cavia aperea pamparum
Cavia aperea patzelti
Cavia aperea rosida

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
25
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 9.86
EDGE Score: 2.38
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  341 grams
Birth Weight [1]  60 grams
Diet [2]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  74 days
Male Maturity [1]  77 days
Gestation [1]  63 days
Litter Size [1]  3
Litters / Year [1]  5
Maximum Longevity [1]  6 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  16 inches (40 cm)
Weaning [1]  17 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Atlantic Forest Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay No
Cerrado Brazil No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

Predators

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

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♦ 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
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♦ 8Herpailurus yagouaroundi, Tadeu G. de Oliveira, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 578, pp. 1-6 (1998)
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♦ 10Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 11International Flea Database
♦ 12Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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