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Oligoryzomys victus (St. Vincent pygmy rice rat)

Synonyms: Oryzomys victus

Wikipedia Abstract

Oligoryzomys victus, also known as the St. Vincent colilargo or St. Vincent pygmy rice rat, is a species of rodent in the genus Oligoryzomys of the oryzomyine tribe. Only one specimen is known, which was collected on Saint Vincent in the Lesser Antilles in about 1892, and it is now presumed extinct. Little is known about the habits or the ecology of O. victus; in fact, the only direct information is a collector's note which calls it a "forest rat". Its morphology suggests that it was not arboreal or fossorial.
View Wikipedia Record: Oligoryzomys victus

Endangered Species

Status: Extinct
View IUCN Record: Oligoryzomys victus

Attributes

Diet [1]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore
Diet - Fruit [1]  30 %
Diet - Invertibrates [1]  30 %
Diet - Seeds [1]  40 %
Forages - Ground [1]  100 %
Nocturnal [1]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [2]  8 inches (20 cm)

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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
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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