🐭Nutria
el coipo (Myocastor coypus), también llamado coipú, nutria, quiyá o rata nutria es una especie de roedor histricomorfo de la familia de los miocastóridos propia del sur de Sudamérica, parecido al castor. Habita en diversos tipos de humedales. Originaria de las zonas subtropicales y templadas de Sudamérica, desde entonces se ha introducido en Norteamérica, Europa y Asia, principalmente por los granjeros peleteros. Aunque en algunas regiones se sigue cazando y atrapando para obtener su piel, sus destructivos hábitos de madriguera y alimentación la ponen a menudo en conflicto con los humanos, y se considera una especie invasora en Estados Unidos. El gobierno de California alega que transmite varias enfermedades a humanos y animales, principalmente a través de la contaminación del agua.[fuente independiente requerida]
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.
- Body mass
- 7.15 kg
- Body length
- 0.58 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 12 years
Everything we know about the Nutria
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass7.15 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0
By sex
- Male6.7 kgWikidataQ187704
- Female6.36 kgWikidataQ187704
Figures vary
- 7.85 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length0.58 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0
Brain mass20 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan12 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 19 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length3.59 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity187 daysCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation132 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 131 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter sizeabout 5COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 6AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelHerbivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleNocturnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range0.02 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density226 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l7.2 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Nutria yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderRodentia
- ›familyMyocastoridae
- ›genusMyocastor
- ›speciesMyocastor coypus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderRodents · Rodentia
- familyMyocastoridae
- genusMyocastor
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderEuarchontoglires
- orderRodents · Rodentia
- suborderHystricomorpha
- familyMyocastoridae
- genusMyocastor
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