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Neusticomys oyapocki (Oyapock's fish-eating rat)

Synonyms: Daptomys oyapocki

Wikipedia Abstract

Oyapock's fish-eating rat (Neusticomys oyapocki) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in French Guiana and Brazil.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Not determined do to incomplete vulnerability data.
ED Score: 6.51
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  4.7 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  80 %
Diet - Vertibrates [2]  20 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Snout to Vent Length [3]  5 inches (13 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Guianan moist forests Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Venezuela Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Cabo Orange National Park II 1529582 Amapá, Brazil  
Guyane (parc amazonien) National Park - Core Area II 5000271 French Guiana  
Montanhas do Tumucumaque National Park II 9555565 Amapá, Brazil  
Uaça Indigenous Area 1161801 Amapá, Brazil  

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
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