🐭Laotian rock rat
라오스바위쥐는 라오스바위쥐과(Diatomyidae)에 속하는 설치류다. 라오스바위쥐과의 현존하는 유일한 속이자 종으로, 라오스에서 2005년 발견되었다. 이 동물이 생존해 있는 것이 밝혀지기 전까지 Diatomyidae에 속하는 모든 동물은 1100만년전(마이오세 후기)에 멸종한 것으로 알려졌었다. 이것을 보고 사람들은 '살아있는 화석'이라고 부른다. 생김새는 검고 털이 많은 쥐같이 생겼는데, 꼬리는 청설모와 약간 비슷하다.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.
- Body mass
- 0.4 kg
- Body length
- 0.25 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 4.87 years
Everything we know about the Laotian rock rat
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.4 kgCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length0.25 mestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan4.87 yearsestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Generation length2.29 yearsestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation59 daysestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter sizeabout 2estimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelHerbivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.4 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
estimated = a model's estimate for a species nobody has measured; average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Laotian rock rat yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderRodentia
- ›familyDiatomyidae
- ›genusLaonastes
- ›speciesLaonastes aenigmamus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderRodents · Rodentia
- familyLaonastidae
- genusLaonastes
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderEuarchontoglires
- orderRodents · Rodentia
- suborderHystricomorpha
- familyLaonastidae
- genusLaonastes
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