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Oxymycterus hucucha (Quechuan hocicudo)

Wikipedia Abstract

Oxymycterus hucucha, also known as the Quechuan Hocicudo, is a species of rodent in the genus Oxymycterus of family Cricetidae from South America. It is found only in a small region of the Andes in central Bolivia, where it lives in cloud forest at altitudes from 2600 to 3000 m. The IUCN lists its conservation status as "endangered" because it has a small distribution, its habitat is being destroyed, and it is not known from any protected areas.
View Wikipedia Record: Oxymycterus hucucha

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Oxymycterus hucucha

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
41
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.83
EDGE Score: 3.42
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  68 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  90 %
Diet - Plants [2]  10 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Snout to Vent Length [3]  7 inches (17 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Bolivian Yungas Bolivia Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Amboró National Park II 1093441 Santa Cruz, Bolivia  
Carrasco National Park 1715702 Cochabamba, Bolivia  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela Yes

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
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