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Procyon cancrivorus (Crab-eating Raccoon)

Synonyms: Ursus cancrivorus

Wikipedia Abstract

The crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus) is a species of raccoon native to marshy and jungle areas of Central and South America (including Trinidad and Tobago). It is found from Costa Rica south through most areas of South America east of the Andes down to northern Argentina and Uruguay. That it is called the crab-eating raccoon does not mean that only this species eats crabs, as the common raccoon also seeks and eats crabs where they are available.
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Infraspecies

Procyon cancrivorus aequatorialis (Crab-eating raccoon)
Procyon cancrivorus cancrivorus (Crab-eating raccoon)
Procyon cancrivorus nigripes (Crab-eating raccoon)
Procyon cancrivorus panamensis (Crab-eating raccoon)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
23
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.71
EDGE Score: 2.27
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  13.823 lbs (6.27 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  71 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore, Frugivore, Granivore
Diet - Ectothermic [2]  10 %
Diet - Fish [2]  20 %
Diet - Fruit [2]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  50 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  10 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  1 year
Male Maturity [1]  1 year
Gestation [1]  63 days
Litter Size [1]  3
Maximum Longevity [1]  19 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [4]  24 inches (60 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Allagoptera arenaria[5]
Cereus fernambucensis[5]
Ocypode quadrata (Atlantic ghost crab)[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Cerdocyon thous (Crab-eating Fox)3

Consumers

Range Map

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
♦ 3Myers, 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
♦ 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
♦ 5Diet of two sympatric carnivores, Cerdocyon thous and Procyon cancrivorus, in a restinga area of Espirito Santo State, Brazil, Andressa Gatti, Rita Bianchi, Claudia Regina Xavier Rosa and Sérgio Lucena Mendes, Journal of Tropical Ecology (2006) 22:227–230
♦ 6International Flea Database
♦ 7Gibson, 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
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
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