Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Rodentia > Muridae > Niviventer > Niviventer niviventerNiviventer niviventer (white-bellied rat)Synonyms: Epimys lepcha The white-bellied rat (Niviventer niviventer) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in India, Nepal, and Pakistan. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 8.44 EDGE Score: 2.25 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 100 grams | | Birth Weight [2] | 4 grams |  | | Diet [3] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore | | Diet - Fruit [3] | 20 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [3] | 20 % | | Diet - Plants [3] | 40 % | | Diet - Seeds [3] | 20 % | | Forages - Scansorial [3] | 100 % | | | Nocturnal [3] | Yes | | Snout to Vent Length [2] | 8 inches (21 cm) |
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Species |
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Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows |
Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests |
India, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Eastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests |
Bhutan, India, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Karakoram-West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe |
Pakistan, China, Afghanistan, India |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Northwestern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows |
China, Pakistan, India |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Northwestern thorn scrub forests |
India, Pakistan |
Indo-Malayan |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Upper Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests |
India |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Western Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows |
India, Nepal |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Western Himalayan broadleaf forests |
India, Pakistan, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Western Himalayan subalpine conifer forests |
India, Pakistan, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
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Himalaya |
Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan |
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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 ♦ 4International Flea Database♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. 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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