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Proechimys guyannensis (Cayenne spiny rat)

Synonyms: Proechimys cayennensis; Proechimys warreni

Wikipedia Abstract

The Guyenne spiny-rat, Proechimys guyannensis, or Cayenne spiny rat, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, French Guyana, Guyana, Surinam and Venezuela.
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Infraspecies

Proechimys guyannensis arabupu
Proechimys guyannensis arescens
Proechimys guyannensis cherriei
Proechimys guyannensis guyannensis
Proechimys guyannensis riparum
Proechimys guyannensis vacillator

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  357 grams
Birth Weight [1]  25 grams
Diet [2]  Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  20 %
Diet - Plants [2]  70 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  10 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  4 months 28 days
Male Maturity [1]  4 months 26 days
Gestation [1]  64 days
Litter Size [1]  2
Litters / Year [3]  3
Maximum Longevity [3]  5 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  9 inches (22 cm)
Weaning [1]  29 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Maracá Ecological Reserve Ia 257554 Roraima, Brazil  
Parque Nacional Canaima National Park II 7542183 Venezuela  

Consumers

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 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
♦ 4International Flea Database
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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