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Zyzomys palatilis (Carpentarian rock rat)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  123 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  10 %
Diet - Plants [2]  90 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Maximum Longevity [1]  6 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Carpentaria tropical savanna Australia Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands

Prey / Diet

Livistona inermis[3]
Pandanus aquaticus[4]
Terminalia hadleyana carpentariae[4]
Terminalia subacroptera[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Rattus tunneyi (pale field rat)1

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 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
♦ 3Species Profile and Threats Database, Australian Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
♦ 4REVISED RECOVERY PLAN FOR THE CARPENTARIAN ROCK-RAT Zyzomys palatalis, Helen Puckey, John Woinarski, Colin Trainor, Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory, 2003
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