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Microdipodops megacephalus (dark kangaroo mouse)

Wikipedia Abstract

The dark kangaroo mouse (Microdipodops megacephalus) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is found in California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Utah in the United States.
View Wikipedia Record: Microdipodops megacephalus

Infraspecies

Microdipodops megacephalus albiventer (Desert Valley kangaroo mouse)
Microdipodops megacephalus ambiguus
Microdipodops megacephalus atrirelictus
Microdipodops megacephalus californicus
Microdipodops megacephalus leucotis
Microdipodops megacephalus medius
Microdipodops megacephalus megacephalus
Microdipodops megacephalus nasutus (Fletcher dark kangaroo mouse)
Microdipodops megacephalus nexus
Microdipodops megacephalus oregonus
Microdipodops megacephalus paululus
Microdipodops megacephalus polionotus
Microdipodops megacephalus sabulonis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
7
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
31
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 14.55
EDGE Score: 2.74
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  13 grams
Birth Weight [2]  1 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  20 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  80 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Litter Size [1]  4
Maximum Longevity [2]  5 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [2]  3.15 inches (8 cm)
Speed [4]  6.711 MPH (3 m/s)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Great Basin montane forests United States Nearctic Temperate Coniferous Forests
Great Basin shrub steppe United States Nearctic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Snake-Columbia shrub steppe United States Nearctic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
El Malpais National Monument III 109980 New Mexico, United States
Great Basin National Park II 77367 Nevada, United States

Predators

Bubo virginianus (Great Horned Owl)[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Fahrenholzia pinnata[5]
Meringis hubbardi[6]

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
♦ 2Nathan 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
♦ 3Hamish 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
♦ 4MAXIMAL RUNNING SPEEDS OF BIPEDAL AND QUADRUPEDAL RODENTS, MINOU DJAWDAN and THEODORE GARLAND, JR., J. Mamm., 69(4):765-772, 1988
♦ 5Jorrit 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.
♦ 6International Flea Database
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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