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Niviventer coninga (Swinhoe's rat)

Synonyms: Mus coxinga; Niviventer coxinga; Niviventer coxingi

Wikipedia Abstract

Coxing's white-bellied rat (Niviventer coninga) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in Taiwan.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  81 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  20 %
Diet - Plants [2]  40 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  20 %
Forages - Scansorial [2]  100 %
Litter Size [1]  2
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [1]  7 inches (17 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
South Taiwan monsoon rain forests Taiwan Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Taiwan subtropical evergreen forests Taiwan Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Fujian Wuyishan Nature Reserve V 206754 Fujian, China  
Kenting National Park II 78882 Taiwan

Predators

Herpestes urva (Crab-eating Mongoose)[3]
Viverricula indica (Small Indian Civet)[3]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Neopsylla affinis affinis[4]
Neopsylla affinis deqinensis[4]
Paradoxopsyllus longiquadratus[4]
Paragonimus ohirai[5]
Peromyscopsylla himalaica himalaica[4]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan 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
♦ 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
♦ 3Food habits of three carnivore species (Viverricula indica, Herpestes urva, and Melogale moschata) in Fushan Forest, northern Taiwan, Shun-An Chuang and Ling-Ling Lee, J. Zool., Lond. (1997) 243, 71-79
♦ 4International Flea Database
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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