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Tragulus napu (greater mouse-deer)

Synonyms: Chevrotain napu (homotypic); Moschus napu

Wikipedia Abstract

The greater mouse-deer, greater Malay chevrotain or napu (Tragulus napu) is a species of even-toed ungulate in the family Tragulidae. It is found in Sumatra, Borneo and smaller Malaysian and Indonesian islands, and in southern Myanmar, southern Thailand and peninsular Malaysia. It was thought to be regionally extinct in Singapore until it was rediscovered on an offshore island in 2008. Reports of its occurrence elsewhere are probably incorrect. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.
View Wikipedia Record: Tragulus napu

Infraspecies

Tragulus napu amoenus
Tragulus napu bancanus
Tragulus napu banguei
Tragulus napu batuanus
Tragulus napu billitonus
Tragulus napu bunguranensis
Tragulus napu flavicollis
Tragulus napu hendersoni
Tragulus napu lutescens
Tragulus napu napu
Tragulus napu neubronneri
Tragulus napu niasis
Tragulus napu nigricollis
Tragulus napu nigrocinctus
Tragulus napu parallelus
Tragulus napu pretiellus
Tragulus napu rufulus
Tragulus napu sebucus
Tragulus napu stanleyanus
Tragulus napu terutus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
6
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
28
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 12.62
EDGE Score: 2.61
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  14.33 lbs (6.50 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  373 grams
Diet [2]  Frugivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  20 %
Diet - Plants [2]  80 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  4 months 17 days
Male Maturity [1]  4 months 15 days
Gestation [1]  5 months 3 days
Litter Size [1]  1
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  17 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [4]  22 inches (56 cm)
Weaning [1]  3 months 1 day

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Sundaland Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand No

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Gastrodiscoides hominis[5]

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
♦ 5Gibson, 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