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Abrothrix hershkovitzi (Hershkovitz's grass mouse)

Synonyms: Akodon hershkovitzi

Wikipedia Abstract

Abrothrix hershkovitzi, also known as Hershkovitz's Grass Mouse or Hershkovitz's Akodont, is a species of rodent in the genus Abrothrix of family Cricetidae. It is found only on some remote islands in southern Chile. It is named after American zoologist Philip Hershkovitz.
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Attributes

Forages - Ground [1]  100 %
Snout to Vent Length [2]  6 inches (14 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Magellanic subpolar forests Chile, Argentina Neotropic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Alberto De Agostini National Park II 3607739 Chile      

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Hamish 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
♦ 2Nathan 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
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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