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Trinomys iheringi (Atlantic Spiny-rat)

Synonyms: Proechimys iheringi

Wikipedia Abstract

Ihering's Atlantic spiny-rat, Trinomys iheringi, is a spiny rat species from South America. It is endemic to Brazil, and was named in honor of Hermann von Ihering.
View Wikipedia Record: Trinomys iheringi

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  203.5 grams
Diet [2]  Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  20 %
Diet - Plants [2]  70 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  10 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Litter Size [3]  1
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  8 inches (20 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Mata Atlântica Biosphere Reserve 72830565 Brazil  
Parque Estadual Intervales State Park II 100998 Brazil  

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Polygenis adelus[4]
Polygenis lakoi[4]
Polygenis nitidus[4]
Pterophthirus wernecki[5]

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
♦ 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