Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Rodentia > Muridae > Praomys > Praomys verschureniPraomys verschureni (African swamp rat)Synonyms: Malacomys verschureni Verschuren's swamp rat (Praomys verschureni) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in Democratic Republic of the Congo.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.It is threatened by habitat loss. |
Diet [1] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore | Diet - Fruit [1] | 20 % | Diet - Invertibrates [1] | 50 % | Diet - Plants [1] | 10 % | Diet - Seeds [1] | 20 % | Forages - Scansorial [1] | 100 % | | Nocturnal [1] | Yes | Snout to Vent Length [2] | 7 inches (19 cm) |
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Countries |
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Biome |
Species |
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Climate |
Land Use |
Albertine Rift montane forests |
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi,Tanzania |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Northeastern Congolian lowland forests |
Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Republic of the Congo |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Kahuzi-BiƩga National Park |
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1647768 |
Democratic Republic of the Congo |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
Eastern Afromontane |
Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Hamish 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 ♦ 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 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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