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Euneomys chinchilloides (Patagonian chinchilla mouse)

Synonyms: Euneomys ultimus

Wikipedia Abstract

The Patagonian chinchilla mouse (Euneomys chinchilloides) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Tierra del Fuego and neighboring areas of southernmost Argentina and Chile.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Not determined do to incomplete vulnerability data.
ED Score: 5.15
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  87.6 grams
Diet [2]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Snout to Vent Length [3]  6 inches (16 cm)

Ecoregions

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

Protected Areas

Predators

Leopardus pajeros (Pampas cat)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Agastopsylla nylota euneomys[5]
Ectinorus onychius deplexus[5]
Ectinorus splendidus[5]
Plocopsylla lewisi[5]
Plocopsylla wolffsohni[5]

Range Map

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
♦ 4GARCIA ESPONDA, César M. et al. Microvertebrados depredados por Leopardus pajeros (Carnivora: Felidae) en el sur de la Provincia de Mendoza, Argentina. Mastozool. neotrop. 2009, vol.16, n.2, pp. 455-457.
♦ 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