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Perognathus parvus (Great Basin pocket mouse)

Synonyms: Cricetodipus parvus (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Great Basin pocket mouse (Perognathus parvus) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is found in British Columbia in Canada and the western United States.
View Wikipedia Record: Perognathus parvus

Infraspecies

Perognathus parvus bullatus
Perognathus parvus clarus
Perognathus parvus columbianus
Perognathus parvus idahoensis
Perognathus parvus laingi
Perognathus parvus lordi
Perognathus parvus mollipilosus
Perognathus parvus olivaceus
Perognathus parvus parvus (Great Basin pocket mouse)
Perognathus parvus trumbullensis
Perognathus parvus xanthonotus (yellow-eared pocket mouse) (Attributes)
Perognathus parvus yakimensis

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]  21 grams
Birth Weight [2]  2 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]  3 months 10 days
Gestation [2]  24 days
Litter Size [2]  5
Litters / Year [2]  2
Maximum Longevity [2]  6 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [1]  3.15 inches (8 cm)
Speed [4]  7.829 MPH (3.5 m/s)
Weaning [2]  23 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No

Predators

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
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♦ 2de 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
♦ 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.
♦ 6Comparative Diets of Burrowing Owls in Oregon and Washington, Gregory A. Green, Richard E. Fitzner, Robert G. Anthony and Lee E. Rogers, Northwest Science, Vol. 67, No. 2, 1993, pp. 88-93
♦ 7Feeding ecology of the Great Basin Rattlesnake (Crotalus lutosus, Viperidae), Xavier Glaudas, Tereza Jezkova, and Javier A. Rodríguez-Robles, Can. J. Zool. 86: 723–734 (2008)
♦ 8Feeding ecology of North American gopher snakes (Pituophis catenifer, Colubridae), JAVIER A. RODRÍGUEZ-ROBLES, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2002, 77, 165–183
♦ 9Thomomys townsendii, B. J. Verts and Leslie N. Carraway, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 719, pp. 1–6 (2003)
♦ 10International Flea Database
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