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Bandicota indica (greater bandicoot rat)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The greater bandicoot rat (Bandicota indica) is a species of rodent in the family Muridaefound in Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.It can grow to about 27–29 cm without including the tail which tail can grow to 28 cm. In Sri Lanka, the bandicoot rat is known as maha uru-meeya - මහ ඌරු මීයා" in the Sinhala language, the meaning of which directly translates to "pig-rat".
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
23
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.27
EDGE Score: 2.23
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.102 lbs (500 g)
Birth Weight [2]  5 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  20 %
Diet - Plants [3]  80 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [2]  3 months 26 days
Male Maturity [2]  3 months 22 days
Gestation [2]  22 days
Litter Size [2]  6
Litters / Year [2]  4
Maximum Longevity [2]  4 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [2]  11 inches (28 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Himalaya Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan No
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No
Western Ghats and Sri Lanka India, Sri Lanka No

Prey / Diet

Artocarpus nobilis[4]
Cullenia exarillata[4]
Enhydris enhydris (Rainbow Water Snake, Striped Water Snake)[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Bubo bengalensis (Rock Eagle-owl)[6]
Tyto longimembris (Eastern Grass Owl)[7]

Consumers

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
♦ 2Nathan 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
♦ 3Hamish 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
♦ 4IDENTIFYING DIURNAL AND NOCTURNAL FRUGIVORES IN THE TERRESTRIAL AND ARBOREAL LAYERS OF A TROPICAL RAIN FOREST IN SRI LANKA, Palitha Jayasekara, Udayani Rose Weerasinghe, Siril Wijesundara & Seiki Takatsuki, ECOTROPICA 13: 7–15, 2007
♦ 5The prey and predators of Homalopsine snakes, HAROLD K. VORIS and JOHN C. MURPHY, Journal of Natural History, 2002, 36, 1621–1632
♦ 6Pande, S. & N. Dahanukar (2011). The diet of Indian Eagle Owl Bubo bengalensis and its agronomic significance. Journal of Threatened Taxa 3(8): 2011–2017.
♦ 7Initial Investigation on the Diet of Eastern Grass Owl (Tyto longimembris) in Southern Taiwan, Wen-Loung Lin, Yin Wang and Hui-Yun Tseng, Taiwania, 52(1): 100-105, 2007
♦ 8Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 9International Flea Database
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