About: Malagasy Giant Rat   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

The Malagasy giant rat (Hypogeomys antimena), also known as the votsota or votsovotsa, is a nesomyid found only in the Menabe region of Madagascar. It is an endangered species due to habitat loss, slow reproduction, and limited range (20 square kilometres north of Morondava, between the rivers Tomitsy and Tsiribihina). Pairs are monogamous and females bear only one or two young per year. It is the only extant species in the genus Hypogeomys; another species, Hypogeomys australis, is known from subfossil remains a few thousand years old.

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Malagasy Giant Rat
rdfs:comment
  • The Malagasy giant rat (Hypogeomys antimena), also known as the votsota or votsovotsa, is a nesomyid found only in the Menabe region of Madagascar. It is an endangered species due to habitat loss, slow reproduction, and limited range (20 square kilometres north of Morondava, between the rivers Tomitsy and Tsiribihina). Pairs are monogamous and females bear only one or two young per year. It is the only extant species in the genus Hypogeomys; another species, Hypogeomys australis, is known from subfossil remains a few thousand years old.
sameAs
dcterms:subject
statusimage
  • EN
dbkwik:animals/pro...iPageUsesTemplate
Status
  • Endangered
Name
  • Malagasy Giant Rat
Species
  • Hypogeomys antimena
Genus
Class
OtherName
  • Votsota, Votsovotsa and Giant Jumping Rat
Family
Order
Phylum
Location
  • Menabe region of Madagascar.
abstract
  • The Malagasy giant rat (Hypogeomys antimena), also known as the votsota or votsovotsa, is a nesomyid found only in the Menabe region of Madagascar. It is an endangered species due to habitat loss, slow reproduction, and limited range (20 square kilometres north of Morondava, between the rivers Tomitsy and Tsiribihina). Pairs are monogamous and females bear only one or two young per year. It is the only extant species in the genus Hypogeomys; another species, Hypogeomys australis, is known from subfossil remains a few thousand years old.
is Caption of
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software