Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Rodentia > Dasyproctidae > Dasyprocta > Dasyprocta prymnolophaDasyprocta prymnolopha (Hairy-rumpted agouti)The black-rumped agouti (Dasyprocta prymnolopha) is an agouti species from the family Dasyproctidae. It is endemic to Brazil, and its range roughly equals the Northeast Region. It is named after its black rump which contrast clearly with the orange body. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 5.99 EDGE Score: 1.94 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 6.393 lbs (2.90 kg) |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Herbivore | | Diet - Fruit [2] | 40 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 10 % | | Diet - Plants [2] | 50 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 100 % | | | Litter Size [1] | 1.5 | | Maximum Longevity [1] | 16 years | | Snout to Vent Length [3] | 24 inches (62 cm) |
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Species |
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Amazon-Orinoco-Southern Caribbean mangroves |
Brazil, Columbia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela |
Neotropic |
Mangroves |
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Atlantic Coast restingas |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Atlantic dry forests |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Bahia coastal forests |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Bahia interior forests |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Caatinga |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Caatinga Enclaves moist forests |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Campos Rupestres montane savanna |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Cerrado |
Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Maranhao Babatu forests |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Northeastern Brazil restingas |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Pernambuco coastal forests |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Pernambuco interior forests |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Southern Atlantic mangroves |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Mangroves |
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Tocantins/Pindare moist forests |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Atlantic Forest |
Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay |
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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 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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