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Dipodomys ordii (Ord's kangaroo rat)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Ord's kangaroo rat (Dipodomys ordii) is a kangaroo rat native to western North America, specifically the Great Plains and the Great Basin, with its range extending from extreme southern Canada to central Mexico. Though a common species in the United States, the population in Canada is considered endangered.
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Infraspecies

Dipodomys ordii celeripes
Dipodomys ordii chapmani
Dipodomys ordii cinderensis
Dipodomys ordii cineraceus (Dolphin Island Ord's kangaroo rat)
Dipodomys ordii columbianus
Dipodomys ordii cupidineus
Dipodomys ordii durranti
Dipodomys ordii evexus
Dipodomys ordii extractus
Dipodomys ordii fetosus
Dipodomys ordii fremonti
Dipodomys ordii inaquosus
Dipodomys ordii longipes
Dipodomys ordii luteolus
Dipodomys ordii marshalli
Dipodomys ordii medius
Dipodomys ordii monoensis
Dipodomys ordii montanus
Dipodomys ordii nexilis
Dipodomys ordii obscurus
Dipodomys ordii oklahomae
Dipodomys ordii ordii
Dipodomys ordii pallidus
Dipodomys ordii palmeri
Dipodomys ordii panguitchensis
Dipodomys ordii priscus
Dipodomys ordii pullus
Dipodomys ordii richardsoni
Dipodomys ordii sanrafaeli
Dipodomys ordii terrosus
Dipodomys ordii uintensis
Dipodomys ordii utahensis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
20
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.85
EDGE Score: 2.06
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  57 grams
Birth Weight [1]  5 grams
Male Weight [3]  56 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]  61 days
Gestation [1]  29 days
Litter Size [1]  3
Litters / Year [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  10 years
Nocturnal [4]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  6 inches (16 cm)
Speed [5]  8.724 MPH (3.9 m/s)
Weaning [1]  34 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

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External References

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Citations

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♦ 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
♦ 4Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 5MAXIMAL RUNNING SPEEDS OF BIPEDAL AND QUADRUPEDAL RODENTS, MINOU DJAWDAN and THEODORE GARLAND, JR., J. Mamm., 69(4):765-772, 1988
♦ 6Dipodomys ordii, Tom E. Garrison and Troy L. Best, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 353, pp. 1-10 (1990)
♦ 7Food 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)
♦ 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.
♦ 9Food 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
♦ 10Comparative Diets of Burrowing Owls in Oregon and Washington, Gregory A. Green, Richard E. Fitzner, Robert G. Anthony and Lee E. Rogers, Northwest Science, Vol. 67, No. 2, 1993, pp. 88-93
♦ 11Feeding ecology of the Great Basin Rattlesnake (Crotalus lutosus, Viperidae), Xavier Glaudas, Tereza Jezkova, and Javier A. Rodríguez-Robles, Can. J. Zool. 86: 723–734 (2008)
♦ 12Feeding ecology of North American gopher snakes (Pituophis catenifer, Colubridae), JAVIER A. RODRÍGUEZ-ROBLES, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2002, 77, 165–183
♦ 13Thomomys townsendii, B. J. Verts and Leslie N. Carraway, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 719, pp. 1–6 (2003)
♦ 14Spermophilus spilosoma, Donald P. Streubel and James P. Fitzgerald, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 101, pp. 1-4 (1978)
♦ 15International Flea Database
♦ 16Gibson, 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