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Niviventer confucianus (Chinese white-bellied rat)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Chinese white-bellied rat (Niviventer confucianus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is widely spread in China and also occurs in northern Myanmar, northwest Thailand, and northwest Vietnam. It might also occur in northern Laos.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
23
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.44
EDGE Score: 2.25
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Attributes

Diet [1]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [1]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [1]  20 %
Diet - Plants [1]  40 %
Diet - Seeds [1]  20 %
Forages - Scansorial [1]  100 %
Nocturnal [1]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [2]  8 inches (21 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

Predators

Martes flavigula (Yellow-throated Marten)[3]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

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
♦ 3You-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
♦ 4International 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