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Phyllomys brasiliensis (Red-nosed Tree Rat)

Synonyms: Echimys brasiliensis; Echimys braziliensis; Loncheres armatus

Wikipedia Abstract

The Orange-brown Atlantic Tree-rat, Phyllomys brasiliensis, or Red-nosed Tree Rat, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Brazil.
View Wikipedia Record: Phyllomys brasiliensis

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Phyllomys brasiliensis

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  312.5 grams
Diet [2]  Frugivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  80 %
Diet - Plants [2]  20 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Nocturnal [2]  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
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