Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Rodentia > Muridae > Uromys > Uromys hadrourusUromys hadrourus (masked white-tailed rat)The masked white-tailed rat (Uromys hadrourus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in Australia, in north-east Queensland. Descriptive English common names for this species include Masked White-tailed Rat and Thornton Peak Uromys. During the 1990s there was a push for such names to be replaced with indigenous Australian names, and accordingly, in 1995 the Australian Nature Conservation Agency published recommendations for the common names of rodents. They failed to identify any indigenous Australian names for U. hadrourus, so recommended the adoption of the name Kuku, the Kuku-Yalanki name for any rat. However this recommendation was not prescriptive, and it remains to be seen to what extent it will be adopted. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 7.87 EDGE Score: 3.57 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 194 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore | | Diet - Fruit [2] | 50 % | | Diet - Plants [2] | 20 % | | Diet - Seeds [2] | 30 % | | Forages - Scansorial [2] | 100 % | | | Litter Size [3] | 3 | | Snout to Vent Length [3] | 6 inches (16 cm) |
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Einasleigh upland savanna |
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Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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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 ♦ 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 ♦ 4Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19 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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