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Dipodomys heermanni (Heermann's kangaroo rat)

Wikipedia Abstract

Heermann's kangaroo rat (Dipodomys heermanni) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae.
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Infraspecies

Dipodomys heermanni arenae
Dipodomys heermanni berkeleyensis (Berkeley Kangaroo Rat)
Dipodomys heermanni dixoni (Merced Kangaroo Rat)
Dipodomys heermanni goldmani
Dipodomys heermanni heermanni (Heermann's kangaroo rat)
Dipodomys heermanni jolonensis
Dipodomys heermanni morroensis (Morro Bay kangaroo rat)
Dipodomys heermanni swarthi
Dipodomys heermanni tularensis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
15
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.88
EDGE Score: 1.77
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  65 grams
Birth Weight [1]  4 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  20 %
Diet - Plants [2]  30 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  30 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [3]  53 days
Gestation [1]  31 days
Litter Size [1]  3
Litters / Year [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  8 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  6 inches (16 cm)
Weaning [1]  31 days

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
California Central Valley grasslands United States Nearctic Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
California interior chaparral and woodlands United States Nearctic Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub
California montane chaparral and woodlands United States Nearctic Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States Yes

Prey / Diet

Avena fatua (flaxgrass)[4]
Bromus rubens (red brome)[4]
Croton setigerus (dove weed)[4]
Festuca myuros (rat-tailed fescue)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Ammospermophilus nelsoni (Nelson's antelope squirrel)2
Dipodomys ingens (giant kangaroo rat)1
Microtus californicus (California vole)1

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Fahrenholzia pinnata[6]
Meringis cummingi[7]
Rhadinopsylla sectilis sectilis[7]
Thrassis aridis arcuatus[7]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4Dipodomys heermanni, Douglas A. Kelt, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 323, pp. 1-7 (1988)
♦ 5Feeding ecology of North American gopher snakes (Pituophis catenifer, Colubridae), JAVIER A. RODRÍGUEZ-ROBLES, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2002, 77, 165–183
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 7International Flea Database
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0