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Tympanoctomys barrerae (plains viscacha rat)

Wikipedia Abstract

The plains viscacha rat or red vizcacha rat (Tympanoctomys barrerae) is a species of rodent in the family Octodontidae native to Argentina. It is one of two species in the genus Tympanoctomys.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
15
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
52
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 29.35
EDGE Score: 4.11
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Attributes

Adult Length [1]  35 inches (90 cm)
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [2]  6 inches (15 cm)
Adult Weight [2]  91 grams
Birth Weight [1]  4 grams
Female Weight [2]  85 grams
Male Weight [2]  98 grams
Weight Dimorphism [2]  15.3 %
Diet [3]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [3]  100 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Low Monte Argentina Neotropic Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Reserva Ecologica de Ñacuñan Ecological Reserve Ia   Argentina  
Valle Fértil Nature Park 1976843 San Juan, Argentina      

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Eligmodontia moreni (Monte gerbil mouse)1
Octomys mimax (viscacha rat)1

Predators

Tyto alba (Barn Owl)[1]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Tympanoctomys barrerae, Gabriela B. Diaz, Ricardo A. Ojeda, Milton H. Gallardo, and Stella M. Giannoni, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 646, pp. 1–4 (2000)
♦ 2Nathan 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
♦ 3Hamish 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
♦ 4ECOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE RED VIZCACHA RAT, Tympanoctomys barrerae IN DESERT HABITATS OF ARGENTINA, Ricardo A. Ojeda, Jorge M. Gonnet, Carlos E. Borghi, Stella M. Giannoni, Claudia M. Campos, and Gabriela B. Diaz, Mastozoologia Neotropical: 3(2):183-191 (1996)
♦ 5International Flea Database
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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