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Peromyscus difficilis (Zacatecan deer mouse; rock mouse)

Synonyms: Peromyscus amplus; Peromyscus difficilis petricola; Peromyscus difficilis saxicola; Peromyscus felipensis; Vesperimus difficilis (homotypic)
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The Zacatecan deer mouse, or southern rock deermouse (Peromyscus difficilis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico, and is not considered endangered.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
12
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.56
EDGE Score: 1.52
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  28 grams
Birth Weight [2]  2 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore
Diet - Fruit [3]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  50 %
Diet - Scavenger [3]  10 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  20 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [2]  42 days
Gestation [2]  30 days
Litter Size [4]  3
Litters / Year [2]  3
Maximum Longevity [2]  5 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [2]  3.937 inches (10 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Predators

Bassariscus astutus (Ringtail)[4]
Strix occidentalis lucida (Mountain spotted owl)[5]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Felisa A. Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons, S. K. Morgan Ernest, Kate E. Jones, Dawn M. Kaufman, Tamar Dayan, Pablo A. Marquet, James H. Brown, and John P. Haskell. 2003. Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84:3403
♦ 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
♦ 4Peromyscus difficilis (Rodentia: Cricetidae), JESUS A. FERNANDEZ, FLORENCIA GARCIA-CAMPUSANO, AND MARK S. HAFNER, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 42(867):220–229 (2010)
♦ 5DIET COMPOSITION AND REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS OF MEXICAN SPOTTED OWLS, Mark E. Seamans and R.J. Gutiérrez, J. Raptor Res. 33(2):143-148
♦ 6International Flea Database
♦ 7Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 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
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