Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Rodentia > Echimyidae > Diplomys > Diplomys rufodorsalisDiplomys rufodorsalis (red crested tree rat)Synonyms: Santamartamys rufodorsalis (homotypic) Santamartamys is a monotypic genus of rodent in family Echimyidae, containing only the red-crested tree rat (Santamartamys rufodorsalis). It is nocturnal and is believed to feed on plant matter, and is mainly rufous, with young specimens having a grey coat. IUCN list the species as critically endangered: it is affected by feral cats, climate change, and the clearing of forest in its potential range in coastal Colombia. |
Adult Weight [1] | 144.8 grams | | Diet [2] | Frugivore, Granivore | Diet - Fruit [2] | 50 % | Diet - Seeds [2] | 50 % | Forages - Scansorial [2] | 100 % | | Nocturnal [2] | Yes | Top 100 Endangered [3] | Yes |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Felisa A. Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons, S. K. Morgan Ernest, Kate E. Jones, Dawn M. Kaufman, Tamar Dayan, Pablo A. Marquet, James H. Brown, and John P. Haskell. 2003. Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84:3403 ♦ 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 ♦ 3Baillie, J.E.M. & Butcher, E. R. (2012) Priceless or Worthless? The world’s most threatened species. Zoological Society of London, United Kingdom. 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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