🐭Nutria
海狸鼠，又稱美洲巨水鼠、河狸鼠、狸獺、沼狸，是一種大型的草食性半水生齧齒目哺乳類動物，原來被劃為硬毛鼠科，後來獨立出來成為海狸鼠科。海狸鼠的毛皮是一種名貴的衣料，常用作大衣、帽子、圍巾等的材料。 「Nutria」在西班牙語的本意其實是水獺的意思。
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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 ↑
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 length0.58 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0
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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Figures vary
- 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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