Myocastor coypus   ragondin🐭

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SpeciesRodentiaMyocastoridae
Mammals

🐭Nutria

Myocastor coypus (Molina, 1782)

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.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
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vs you
≈ 1/9th of your weight
Also called
Myocastor coypus, Coypu, coypu, nutria
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
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
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Nutria

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
7.15 kg
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Other figures ↓

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 length
0.58 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Brain mass
20 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
12 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 19 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
3.59 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
187 days
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Gestation
132 days
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Figures vary

  • 131 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 5
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 6AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Herbivore
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Nocturnal
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Home range
0.02 km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
226 per km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
7.2 Laverage
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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.

More

More about the Nutria

Closest relative on this site
🐹 Capybara — last shared an ancestor ≈ 34 million years ago.
What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants100%
In other languages
sumpbäver (sv), Nutria (de), nutrie říční (cs), ragondin (fr), Sumpbever (nb), beverrat (nl) … and 26 more languages

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