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Abrothrix olivaceus (Manso grass mouse)

Synonyms: Abrothrix xanthorhina; Akodon mansoensis; Akodon olivaceus; Akodon xanthorhinus

Wikipedia Abstract

Abrothrix olivaceus, also known as the olive grass mouse or olive akodont, is a species of rodent in the genus Abrothrix of family Cricetidae. It is found from northern Chile into southern Chile and Argentina, including the islands of Tierra del Fuego. It is prone to large swings in population size.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  39 grams
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [3]  6 months 12 days
Litter Size [3]  5
Litters / Year [3]  2
Maximum Longevity [3]  1 year
Snout to Vent Length [3]  4.724 inches (12 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

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

Prey / Diet

Myrcianthes coquimbensis[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Octodon degus (Degus)1
Phyllotis darwini (Darwin's leaf-eared mouse)1

Predators

Consumers

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Felisa A. Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons, S. K. Morgan Ernest, Kate E. Jones, Dawn M. Kaufman, Tamar Dayan, Pablo A. Marquet, James H. Brown, and John P. Haskell. 2003. Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84:3403
♦ 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
♦ 4Loayza, Andrea et al. (2017), Data from: Fruit size determines the role of three scatter-hoarding rodents as dispersers or seed predators of a fleshy-fruited Atacama Desert shrub, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.13pb4
♦ 5Predation upon small mammals in shrublands and grasslands of southern South America: ecological correlates and presumable consequences, Fabian M. Jaksic, Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 59: 209-221 (1986)
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 7DIET AND ACTIVITY PATTERNS OF LEOPARDUS GUIGNA IN RELATION TO PREY AVAILABILITY IN FOREST FRAGMENTS OF THE CHILEAN TEMPERATE RAINFOREST, Stephania Eugenia Galuppo Gaete, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, Masters thesis, September 2014
♦ 8Habitat and Diet of Darwin's Fox (Pseudalopex fulvipes) on the Chilean Mainland, Fabian M. Jaksić, Jaime E. Jiménez, Rodrigo G. Medel, Pablo A. Marquet, Journal of Mammalogy, 71(2):246-248, 1990
♦ 9TOBAR, C., RAU, J., SANTIBÁÑEZ, A., ARRIAGADA, A., SADE, S., Araneda, R., & Tello, F. (2015). Dieta del tiuque (Milvago chimango) en agroecosistemas de la ciudad de Osorno, sur de Chile. Boletín Chileno de Ornitología, 20(1-2), 13-16.
♦ 10International Flea Database
♦ 11Gibson, 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