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Necromys obscurus (dark bolo mouse)

Synonyms: Bolomys obscurus

Wikipedia Abstract

The dark bolo mouse or dark-furred akodont (Necromys obscurus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. There are two subspecies; one (ssp. scagliarum) is found in eastern and central parts of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, and the other (ssp. obscurus) in coastal areas of southern Uruguay.
View Wikipedia Record: Necromys obscurus

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  40.7 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  70 %
Diet - Plants [2]  30 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Litter Size [3]  5

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Humid Pampas Argentina Neotropic Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
ParanĂ¡ flooded savanna Argentina Neotropic Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Uruguayan savanna Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands

Predators

Lycalopex gymnocercus (Pampas Fox)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Polygenis axius axius[5]

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
♦ 4Small-scale spatial variability in the diet of pampas foxes (Pseudalopex gymnocercus) and human-induced changes in prey base, Ariel A. Farias, Marcelo J. Kittlein, Ecol Res (2008) 23: 543–550
♦ 5International Flea Database
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