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Tamandua mexicana (Northern Tamandua)

Synonyms: Myrmecophaga tamandua mexicana

Wikipedia Abstract

The northern tamandua (Tamandua mexicana) is a species of tamandua, a small anteater in the family Myrmecophagidae. They live in tropical and subtropical forests from southern Mexico, through Central America, and to the edge of the northern Andes.
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Infraspecies

Tamandua mexicana instabilis
Tamandua mexicana mexicana
Tamandua mexicana opistholeuca
Tamandua mexicana punensis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
16
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
42
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 31.33
EDGE Score: 3.48
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  9.921 lbs (4.50 kg)
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Scansorial [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [3]  1 year
Gestation [1]  5 months 13 days
Litter Size [5]  1
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  16 years
Nocturnal [4]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  28 inches (72 cm)
Habitat Substrate [4]  Arboreal

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru No

Prey / Diet

Attalea butyracea[6]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Ara macao (Scarlet Macaw)1

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
♦ 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
♦ 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
♦ 5Tamandua mexicana (Pilosa: Myrmecophagidae), DAYA NAVARRETE AND JORGE ORTEGA, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 43(874):56–63 (2011)
♦ 6Fruit-eating by an obligate insectivore: palm fruit consumption in wild northern tamanduas (Tamandua mexicana) in Panama, Danielle D. Brown, Edentata 12 (2011): 63–65
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