Marsh Mongoose

Atilax paludinosus

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Atilax paludinosus (Marsh Mongoose) is a species of mammals in the family mongooses. It is associated with freshwater habitat. It is found in the Afrotropics. Marsh Mongoose is a solitary insectivore. Individuals are known to live for 209 months and can grow to 3600.16 g. Reproduction is dioecious. Marsh Mongoose relies on running to move around.

URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000873
Definition: A biome that applies to the freshwater realm.

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URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q677088
Definition: organism that eats insects.

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URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/solitary
Definition: Solitary animals are those that spend a majority of their lives without others of their species, with possible exceptions for mating and raising their young. The antonym to a solitary animal is a social animal.
Attribution: https://www.definitions.net/definition/solitary+animal

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URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148681
Definition: a characteristic of a species, meaning that it has distinct male and female individual organisms.

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URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NBO_0000055
Definition: The act of locomoting on limbs with body off the ground such that periodically none of the limbs are touching the ground.

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EOL has data for 52 attributes, including:

body mass
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/VT_0001259
- Definition: The amount of matter in the body of an organism.
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549.99 g
ecomorphological guild
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/EcomorphologicalGuild
- Definition: organisms that share certain morphological traits due to adaptation to similar environments and ecological roles
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fossorial and/or ground dwelling only
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/groundDwelling
- Definition: An organism that spends most of its time on the ground or underground.
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first appearance
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/FossilFirst
- Definition: The first appearance of this taxon in the fossil record.
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2.588 million years ago
habitat
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002303
- Definition: x has habitat y if: x is an organism, y is a habitat, and y can sustain and allow the growth of a population of x
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river
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000253
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has pathogen
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002557
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Rabies virus
is vector for
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002459
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Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Mill. (Barbary Fig)
number of fossil occurrences
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/fossilOccPBDB
- Definition: The number of fossil occurrences in the Paleobiology Database (https://paleobiodb.org) that are identified as belonging to a particular taxon or any of its subtaxa.
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10
parasitized by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002445
- Definition: automatically added during harvest
- Comment: Auto-added during harvest #37. A human needs to edit this.
- Attribution: Global Biotic Interactions
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Ctenocephalides felis (Bouche 1835) (Cat Flea)
preyed upon by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002458
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Homo sapiens Linnaeus 1758 (Human)
trophic guild
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/TrophicGuild
- Definition: A group of species that exploit the same food resources, and/or use the same feeding or foraging methods. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild_(ecology)
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insectivore
- URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q677088
- Definition: organism that eats insects.
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trophic level
- URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1053008
- Definition: position of an organism in a food web. May be described verbally with descriptors including primary producer, herbivore or carnivore. If described numerically, 1 indicates a primary producer, 2 a herbivore, and so on up the food web.
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carnivore
- URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q81875
- Definition: organism that eats mostly or exclusively animal tissue
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weaning age
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/WeaningAge
- Definition: Age when primary nutritional dependency on the mother ends and independent foraging begins to make a major contribution to the offspring’s energy requirements.
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35.89 days

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Marsh Mongoose. View this species on GBIF

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Marsh Mongoose includes 11 children: