🐭Nutria
뉴트리아(학명: Myocastor coypus)는 가시쥐과에 속하는 설치류의 일종이다. 오랫동안 뉴트리아과(Myocastoridae)의 유일종으로 분류했지만, 현재는 가시쥐과에 포함시킨다. 뉴트리아는 스페인어로 원래 수달을 의미하고, 고향인 남미에서는 이 종류를 코이푸(coipú)라고 부른다. 설치류 가운데서도 대형종에 속하는 초식성 반수서동물이다.
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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 ↑
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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 ↑
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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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- 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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