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Zaedyus pichiy (Pichi)

Infraspecies

Zaedyus pichiy caurinus
Zaedyus pichiy pichiy

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
7
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
42
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 14.99
EDGE Score: 3.47
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  3.307 lbs (1.50 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  105 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  10 months 20 days
Male Maturity [1]  10 months 20 days
Gestation [1]  60 days
Litter Size [1]  2
Litters / Year [3]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  13 years
Nocturnal [4]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [5]  13 inches (32 cm)
Weaning [1]  42 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Bosques Petrificados Monumental Natural National Monument III 151218 Santa Cruz, Argentina  
Laguna Blanca National Park II 19735 Neuquen, Argentina  
Nahuel Huapi National Park II 759703 Argentina  
Reserva Ecologica de Ñacuñan Ecological Reserve Ia   Argentina  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forests Chile No

Prey / Diet

Dorymyrmex joergenseni[6]
Dorymyrmex richteri[6]
Dorymyrmex tener[6]
Pheidole aberrans[6]
Solenopsis patagonica[6]

Predators

Caracara plancus (Southern Crested Caracara)[7]
Harpyhaliaetus coronatus (Crowned Solitary Eagle)[8]
Lycalopex gymnocercus (Pampas Fox)[9]
Puma concolor (Cougar)[3]
Spizaetus melanoleucus (Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle)[3]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Hectopsylla broscus[10]
Malacopsylla grossiventris[10]
Phthiropsylla agenoris[10]

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
♦ 3Zaedyus pichiy (Cingulata: Dasypodidae), MARIELLA SUPERINA AND AGUSTIN M. ABBA, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 46(905):1–10 (2014)
♦ 4Myers, 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
♦ 5Nathan 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
♦ 6Summer diet of the pichi Zaedyus pichiy (Xenarthra: Dasypodidae) in Mendoza Province, Argentina, M. Superina, F. Fernandez Campon, E.L. Stevani, R. Carrara, Journal of Arid Environments xxx (2009) 1–4
♦ 7Food habits of the Crested Caracara (Caracara plancus) in the Andean Patagonia: the role of breeding constraints, A. Travaini, J. A. Donázar, O. Ceballos & F. Hiraldo, Journal of Arid Environments (2001) 48: 211–219
♦ 8Crowned eagles rarely prey on livestock in central Argentina: persecution is not justified, José Hernán Sarasola, Miguel Ángel Santillán, Maximiliano Adrián Galmes, Endangered Species Research 11: 207–213, 2010
♦ 9Lycalopex gymnocercus (Carnivora: Canidae), MAURO LUCHERINI AND ESTELA M. LUENGOS VIDAL, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 820:1–9 (2008)
♦ 10International Flea Database
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
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