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Dipodomys merriami (Merriam's kangaroo rat)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Merriam's kangaroo rat (Dipodomys merriami) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. The species name commemorates Clinton Hart Merriam.
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Infraspecies

Dipodomys merriami ambiguus
Dipodomys merriami annulus
Dipodomys merriami arenivagus
Dipodomys merriami atronasus
Dipodomys merriami brunensis
Dipodomys merriami collinus (Earthquake Merriam's Kangaroo Rat)
Dipodomys merriami frenatus (Virgin Merriam's kangaroo rat)
Dipodomys merriami insularis (San Jose Island kangaroo rat) (Attributes)
Dipodomys merriami margaritae (Margarita Island kangaroo rat)
Dipodomys merriami mayensis
Dipodomys merriami melanurus
Dipodomys merriami merriami (Merriam's kangaroo rat)
Dipodomys merriami mitchelli
Dipodomys merriami olivaceus
Dipodomys merriami parvus (San Bernardino Merriam's kangaroo rat)
Dipodomys merriami platycephalus
Dipodomys merriami quintinensis
Dipodomys merriami trinidadensis
Dipodomys merriami vulcani

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
18
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.03
EDGE Score: 1.95
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  42 grams
Birth Weight [1]  3 grams
Male Weight [3]  39 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 [1]  3 months 12 days
Gestation [1]  28 days
Litter Size [1]  2
Litters / Year [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  10 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  6 inches (15 cm)
Speed [4]  7.091 MPH (3.17 m/s)
Weaning [1]  20 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Prey / Diet

Brahea armata (Blue Hesper Palm)[5]
Eriocoma hymenoides (Indian ricegrass)[6]
Hymenopappus filifolius (Columbia cutleaf)[6]
Munroa pulchella (low woollygrass)[6]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Arizona elegans (arenicola)[7]
Crotalus atrox (Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnake)[8]
Glaucidium brasilianum cactorum (cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl)[9]
Pituophis catenifer (Gopher Snake)[10]

Consumers

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
♦ 4MAXIMAL RUNNING SPEEDS OF BIPEDAL AND QUADRUPEDAL RODENTS, MINOU DJAWDAN and THEODORE GARLAND, JR., J. Mamm., 69(4):765-772, 1988
♦ 5Patterns of frugivory, seed dispersal and predation of blue fan palms (Brahea armata) in oases of northern Baja California, E.V. Wehncke, X.L. Medellín, E. Ezcurra, Journal of Arid Environments 73 (2009) 773–783
♦ 6Food Habits of Rodents Inhabiting Arid and Semi-arid Ecosystems of Central New Mexico, ANDREW G. HOPE AND ROBERT R. PARMENTER, Special Publication of the Museum of Southwestern Biology, NUMBER 9, pp. 1–75 (2007)
♦ 7Food Habit of the Glossy Snake, Arizona elegans, with Comparisons to the Diet of Sympatric Long-nosed Snakes, Rhinocheilus lecontei, Javier A. Rodríguez-Robles, Christopher J. Bell, Harry W. Greene, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 87-92, 1999
♦ 8Jorrit 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.
♦ 9The Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl: Taxonomy, Distribution, and Natural History, Jean-Luc E. Cartron, W. Scott Richardson, Glenn A. Proudfoot, USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-43. 2000
♦ 10Feeding ecology of North American gopher snakes (Pituophis catenifer, Colubridae), JAVIER A. RODRÍGUEZ-ROBLES, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2002, 77, 165–183
♦ 11International Flea Database
♦ 12Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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