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Clyomys bishopi (Bishop's fossorial spiny rat)

Wikipedia Abstract

Bishop's Fossorial Spiny Rat, Clyomys bishopi, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Brazil.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Not determined do to incomplete vulnerability data.
ED Score: 6.04

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  30 grams
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  9 inches (23 cm)

Ecoregions

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Atlantic Forest Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay No
Cerrado Brazil No

Prey / Diet

Attalea geraensis[4]
Syagrus petraea[4]

Predators

Chrysocyon brachyurus (Maned Wolf)[5]
Pseudoscops clamator (Striped Owl)[6]

Range Map

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
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
4Association of the “IUCN vulnerable” spiny rat Clyomys bishopi (Rodentia: Echimyidae) with palm trees and armadillo burrows in southeastern Brazil, Adriana A. Bueno, Marina J. Lapenta, Fátima Oliveira & José C. Motta-Junior, Rev. Biol. Trop. (Int. J. Trop. Biol. ISSN-0034-7744) vol. 52 (4): 1009-1011, December 2004
5Small mammal selection and functional response in the diet of the maned wolf, Chrysocyon brachyurus (mammalia: Canidae), in southeast Brazil, Adriana A. Bueno and José Carlos Motta-Junior, Mastozoologia Neotropical 13.1 (Jan 2006): p11(9)
6Motta-Junior, JC, C. J R. Alho, and S. C S. Belentani. 2004. Food habits of the Striped Owl Asio clamator in southeast Brazil Pages 777–784 in Raptors worldwide: proceedings of the VI world conference on birds of prey and owls (R. Chancellor and B.-U. Meyburg, Eds.)
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
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