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Xeromys myoides (false water rat)

Wikipedia Abstract

The false water-rat (Xeromys myoides) is a species of rodent native to waterways of Australia and Papua New Guinea.
View Wikipedia Record: Xeromys myoides

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Xeromys myoides

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
6
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
51
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 13.41
EDGE Score: 4.05
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Litter Size [4]  2
Maximum Longevity [4]  2 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [4]  4.331 inches (11 cm)
Water Biome [1]  Coastal
Adult Weight [2]  41 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore, Herbivore
Diet - Ectothermic [3]  20 %
Diet - Fish [3]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  40 %
Diet - Plants [3]  20 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Djelk Indigenous Protected Area 1663019 Northern Territory, Australia      
Fraser Island World Heritage Site 454674 Queensland, Australia      
Great SandGreat Sandy y National Park II 546281 Queensland, Australia      
Kakadu National Park II 4744348 Northern Territory, Australia
Tonda Wildlife Management Area 1509658 Papua New Guinea      

Prey / Diet

Phallomedusa solida[5]
Pleuroloba quoyi[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Tikusnema vandycki <Unverified Name>[6]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Felisa 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
♦ 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
♦ 4Nathan 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
♦ 5Species Profile and Threats Database, Australian Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
♦ 6Gibson, 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