🐭Laotian rock rat
Laonastes aenigmamus är en art i ordningen gnagare som upptäcktes så sent som 2005. Arten är inte närmare släkt med andra gnagare och räknas idag som sista djuret i familjen Diatomyidae. Alla andra arter i familjen dog ut för cirka 11 miljoner år sen. Det har föreslagits att djuret ska kallas "laotisk bergsråtta" på svenska.
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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
All 14 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderEuarchontoglires
- orderRodents · Rodentia
- suborderHystricomorpha
- familyLaonastidae
- genusLaonastes
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