Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Rodentia > Dasyproctidae > Dasyprocta > Dasyprocta azaraeDasyprocta azarae (Azara's agouti)Synonyms: Dasyprocta azarae catrinae Azara's agouti (Dasyprocta azarae) is a South American agouti species from the family Dasyproctidae. Found in Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, it is named after Spanish naturalist Félix de Azara. The population is unknown and may have gone locally extinct in some areas due to hunting; it is listed as vulnerable in Argentina. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Not determined do to incomplete vulnerability data. ED Score: 5.99 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 5.842 lbs (2.65 kg) |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Herbivore | | Diet - Fruit [2] | 40 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 10 % | | Diet - Plants [2] | 50 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 100 % | | | Maximum Longevity [1] | 12 years | | Snout to Vent Length [3] | 24 inches (62 cm) |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
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Alta Paraná Atlantic forests |
Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Araucaria moist forests |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Atlantic Coast restingas |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Cerrado |
Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Chiquitano dry forests |
Bolivia, Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Humid Chaco |
Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Mato Grosso seasonal forests |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Pantanal |
Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay |
Neotropic |
Flooded Grasslands and Savannas |
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Serra do Mar coastal forests |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Southern Atlantic mangroves |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Mangroves |
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Uruguayan savanna |
Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Atlantic Forest |
Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay |
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Cerrado |
Brazil |
No |
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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 ♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London ♦ 5International Flea DatabaseEcoregions 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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