Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Rodentia > Heteromyidae > Perognathus > Perognathus flavescens

Perognathus flavescens (plains pocket mouse)

Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The plains pocket mouse (Perognathus flavescens) is a heteromyid rodent of North America. It ranges from southwestern Minnesota and southeastern North Dakota to northern Texas east of the Rockies, and from northern Utah and Colorado to northern Chihuahua west of the Rockies. It has soft silky fur and grows to be 5 inches long, although nearly half of that is the tail. Their breeding season is mainly July to August and the females tend to have 4 embryos at a time. Other information about this animal is scarce.
View Wikipedia Record: Perognathus flavescens

Infraspecies

Perognathus flavescens apache
Perognathus flavescens caryi
Perognathus flavescens cockrumi
Perognathus flavescens copei
Perognathus flavescens flavescens
Perognathus flavescens melanotis (Apache pocket mouse)
Perognathus flavescens perniger (Plains Pocket Mouse)
Perognathus flavescens relictus

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
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  9 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  10 %
Diet - Plants [2]  10 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  80 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  84 days
Gestation [1]  26 days
Hibernates [3]  Yes
Litter Size [1]  5
Litters / Year [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [4]  5 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [4]  2.756 inches (7 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Bubo virginianus (Great Horned Owl)[5]
Sistrurus tergeminus (Desert massasauga)[7]
Tyto alba (Barn Owl)[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Fahrenholzia pinnata[8]

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
♦ 3Myers, 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
♦ 4Nathan 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
♦ 5Perognathus flavescens, R. Richard Monk and J. Knox Jone, Jr., MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 525, pp. 1-4 (1996)
♦ 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)
♦ 7Variation in the Diet of Sistrurus catenatus (Massasauga), with Emphasis on Sistrurus catenatus edwardsii (Desert Massasauga); Andrew T. Holycross and Stephen P. Mackessy; Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 454–464, 2002
♦ 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.
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