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Phyllomys unicolor (Unicolored Tree Rat)

Synonyms: Echimys unicolor

Wikipedia Abstract

The short-furred Atlantic tree-rat, Phyllomys unicolor, or Wagner's Atlantic tree rat, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Brazil.
View Wikipedia Record: Phyllomys unicolor

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Phyllomys unicolor

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  439 grams
Diet [2]  Frugivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  80 %
Diet - Plants [2]  20 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Nocturnal [2]  Yes

External References

Citations

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
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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