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Perognathus fasciatus (olive-backed pocket mouse)

Wikipedia Abstract

The olive-backed pocket mouse (Perognathus fasciatus) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is found in the central Great Plains of Canada and the United States where it is widespread and relatively common; the IUCN considers it to be of "least concern".
View Wikipedia Record: Perognathus fasciatus

Infraspecies

Perognathus fasciatus callistus
Perognathus fasciatus fasciatus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
25
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 9.99
EDGE Score: 2.4
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  11 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  10 %
Diet - Plants [2]  10 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  80 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Gestation [3]  30 days
Litter Size [1]  5
Litters / Year [3]  1
Nocturnal [4]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  3.15 inches (8 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Koeleria macrantha (prairie Junegrass)[1]
Polygonum ramosissimum ramosissimum (narrowpoint knotweed)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Brachylagus idahoensis (Pygmy Rabbit)1
Cervus elaphus (wapiti or elk)1
Ovis canadensis (bighorn sheep)1

Predators

Canis latrans (Coyote)[5]
Crotalus viridis (Prairie rattlesnake)[6]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Androlaelaps fahrenholzi[1]
Dermacentor andersoni (Rocky Mountain wood tick)[1]
Megabothris lucifer[1]
Meringis jamesoni[1]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Perognathus fasciatus, Richard W. Manning and J. Knox Jones, Jr., MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 303, pp. 1-4 (1988)
♦ 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
♦ 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
♦ 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.
♦ 6Diet of the Prairie Rattlesnake, Crotalus viridis viridis, in Southeastern Alberta, Margaret M. A. Hill, G. Lawrence Powell, and Anthony P. Russell, Canadian Field-Naturalist 115(2): 241-246 (2001)
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