Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Rodentia > Heteromyidae > Dipodomys > Dipodomys spectabilisDipodomys spectabilis (banner-tailed kangaroo rat)Language: Spanish The banner-tailed kangaroo rat (Dipodomys spectabilis) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is found in arid environments in the southwestern United States and Mexico where it lives in a burrow by day and forages for seeds and plant matter by night. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 6.54 EDGE Score: 2.71 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 145 grams | | Birth Weight [1] | 8 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] | 10 months 10 days | | | Gestation [1] | 23 days | | Litter Size [1] | 2 | | Litters / Year [1] | 2 | | Maximum Longevity [1] | 13 years | | Nocturnal [4] | Yes | | Snout to Vent Length [3] | 7 inches (17 cm) | | Speed [5] | 4.026 MPH (1.8 m/s) | | Weaning [1] | 24 days |
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IUCN Category |
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Species |
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Climate |
Land Use |
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Carlsbad Caverns National Park |
II |
15448 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Chiricahua National Monument |
V |
1421 |
Arizona, United States |
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Coronado National Monument National Memorial |
III |
4360 |
Arizona, United States |
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El Malpais National Monument |
III |
109980 |
New Mexico, United States |
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El Morro National Monument |
V |
960 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Guadalupe Mountains National Park |
II |
46114 |
Texas, United States |
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Jornada Biosphere Reserve |
Ib |
30913 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Organ Pipe Cactus Biosphere Reserve |
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327376 |
Arizona, United States |
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Saguaro National Park |
II |
11686 |
Arizona, United States |
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Sevilleta LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research |
IV |
228335 |
New Mexico, United States |
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White Sands National Monument |
III |
139922 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Habitat Vegetation Classification |
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Location |
Website |
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Chihuahuan Desert Foothill-Piedmont & Lower Montane Grassland |
United States (Texas, Arizona, New Mexico); Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Sonora) |
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Chihuahuan Piedmont & Foothill Desert Scrub |
Mexico (Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Chihuahua, San Luis Potosi, Durango, Sonora); United States (New Mexico, Arizona, Texas) |
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Intermountain Semi-Desert Steppe & Shrubland |
United States (Washington, California, Oregon, Nevada, Wyoming, Idaho, Arizona, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado) |
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Intermountain Shadscale - Saltbush Scrub |
Mexico (Chihuahua); United States (Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Washington, California, Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, Texas) |
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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 spectabilis, Troy L. Best, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 311, pp. 1-10 (1988) ♦ 5RUNNING SPRINGS: SPEED AND ANIMAL SIZE, CLAIRE T. FARLEY, JAMES GLASHEEN AND THOMAS A. MCMAHON, J. exp. Biol. 185, 71–86 (1993) ♦ 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) ♦ 7Vulpes macrotis, John C. McGrew, Mammalian Species No. 123, pp. 1-6 (1979) ♦ 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. ♦ 9Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London ♦ 10International Flea DatabaseEcoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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