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SpeciesRodentiaMyocastoridae
Mammals

🐭Nutria

Myocastor coypus (Molina, 1782)

Ну́трия (от исп. nutria<lutria, «нутрия», букв. «выдра»), или кои́пу, или боло́тный бобр (лат. Myocastor coypus) — млекопитающее отряда грызунов, включаемое в трибу Myocastorini семейства щетинистых крыс (Echimyidae). Традиционно нутрия выделялась в собственное семейство нутриевых (Myocastoridae), но обоснованность такой классификации опровергается молекулярно-генетическими исследованиями. Родовое название Myocastor происходит от др.-греч. μυο- +κάστωρ «мышебобр». Видовое название coypus — от исп. coipú < мап. koypu «нутрия».

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Videos
4
Photos
6
Measurements
13
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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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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Details ↓

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

Age at maturity
187 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
132 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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
Details ↓

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
Details ↓

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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