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Microcavia australis (southern mountain cavy)

Wikipedia Abstract

The southern mountain cavy (Microcavia australis) is a species of South American rodent in the family Caviidae.
View Wikipedia Record: Microcavia australis

Infraspecies

Microcavia australis australis
Microcavia australis maenas
Microcavia australis salinia

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
5
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
26
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 10.43
EDGE Score: 2.44
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  260 grams
Birth Weight [1]  30 grams
Diet [2]  Frugivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  30 %
Diet - Plants [2]  70 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [3]  70 days
Gestation [1]  54 days
Litter Size [1]  3
Litters / Year [3]  4
Snout to Vent Length [3]  8 inches (21 cm)
Weaning [1]  21 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Bosques Petrificados Monumental Natural National Monument III 151218 Santa Cruz, Argentina  
Los Glaciares National Park II 1329020 Santa Cruz, Argentina
Reserva Ecologica de Ñacuñan Ecological Reserve Ia   Argentina  

Biodiversity Hotspots

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

Prey / Diet

Atamisquea emarginata (atamisquea)[1]
Geoffroea decorticans (chañar)[1]
Larrea cuneifolia[4]
Larrea tridentata (creosotebush)[1]
Prosopis flexuosa (Pauta Negro)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Athene cunicularia (Burrowing Owl)[1]
Buteo polyosoma (Variable Hawk)[1]
Galictis cuja (Lesser Grison)[1]
Lyncodon patagonicus (Patagonian Weasel)[5]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Microcavia australis, Marcelo F. Tognelli, Claudia M. Campos, and Ricardo A. Ojeda, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 648, pp. 1–4 (2001)
♦ 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
♦ 4Effect of herbivorous rodents (cavies and tuco-tucos) on a shrub community in the Monte Desert, Argentina, Natalia Borruel, Claudia M. Campos, Stella M. Giannoni & Carlos E. Borghi, Journal of Arid Environments (1998) 39: 33–37
♦ 5Jorrit 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.
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 7International Flea Database
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