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Leopoldamys edwardsi (Edwards's long-tailed giant rat)

Synonyms: Epimys listeri; Mus melli; Rattus edwardsi hainanensis; Rattus listeri garonum

Wikipedia Abstract

Edwards's long-tailed giant rat (Leopoldamys edwardsi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Burma, Thailand, and Vietnam.
View Wikipedia Record: Leopoldamys edwardsi

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
22
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.94
EDGE Score: 2.19
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  300 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  50 %
Diet - Plants [2]  50 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Litter Size [3]  2
Maximum Longevity [3]  1 year
Snout to Vent Length [3]  10 inches (25 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
Sundaland Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand No

Predators

Martes flavigula (Yellow-throated Marten)[4]
Paguma larvata (Masked Palm Civet)[5]

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
♦ 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
♦ 4You-Bing Zhou, Chris Newman, Christina D. Buesching, Andrzej Zalewski, Yayoi Kaneko, David W. Macdonald, and Zong-Qiang Xie, Diet of an opportunistically frugivorous carnivore, Martes flavigula, in subtropical forest Journal of Mammalogy, 92(3):611–619, 2011
♦ 5DIETARY SHIFTS IN RELATION TO FRUIT AVAILABILITY AMONG MASKED PALM CIVETS (PAGUMA LARVATA) IN CENTRAL CHINA, YOUBING ZHOU, JINSHUO ZHANG, ELEANOR SLADE, LIBIAO ZHANG, FRANCISCO PALOMARES, JIN CHEN, XIAOMING WANG, AND SHUYI ZHANG, Journal of Mammalogy, 89(2):435–447, 2008
♦ 6International 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