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Perognathus inornatus (San Joaquin pocket mouse)

Wikipedia Abstract

The San Joaquin pocket mouse or Salinas pocket mouse (Perognathus inornatus) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is endemic to California in the United States where it lives in desert and semi-desert habitats.
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Infraspecies

Perognathus inornatus inornatus (San Joaquin Pocket Mouse)
Perognathus inornatus neglectus (Mckittrick Pocket Mouse)
Perognathus inornatus psammophilus (Salinas Pocket Mouse)

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]  8 grams
Birth Weight [2]  1 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  10 %
Diet - Plants [3]  10 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  80 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [2]  5 months 1 day
Gestation [2]  23 days
Hibernates [1]  Yes
Litter Size [1]  5
Litters / Year [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [2]  8 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [2]  2.756 inches (7 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
California Central Valley grasslands United States Nearctic Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
California interior chaparral and woodlands United States Nearctic Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub
California montane chaparral and woodlands United States Nearctic Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Carrizo Plain Preserve Nature Conservancy - Preserve Ia 7550 California, United States  
Paine Preserve Nature Conservancy - Preserve 2965 California, United States    
Pixley Vernal Pools Preserve 37 California, United States
San Joaquin Biosphere Reserve 4527 California, United States  
Sand Ridge Preserve Nature Conservancy - Preserve Ia 285 California, United States

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States Yes

Predators

Arizona elegans (arenicola)[4]
Canis latrans (Coyote)[1]
Tyto alba (Barn Owl)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Fahrenholzia pinnata[5]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Perognathus inornatus, Troy L. Best, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 450, pp. 1-5 (1993)
♦ 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
♦ 4Food 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
♦ 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.
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