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Reithrodontomys fulvescens (fulvous harvest mouse)

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Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The fulvous harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys fulvescens) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and the United States.
View Wikipedia Record: Reithrodontomys fulvescens

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
5
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
26
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 10.85
EDGE Score: 2.47
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  12 grams
Birth Weight [1]  1.11 grams
Diet [2]  Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  50 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  50 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Litter Size [1]  3
Litters / Year [3]  2
Maximum Longevity [3]  2 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  3.15 inches (8 cm)
Weaning [1]  14 days

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

Habitat Vegetation Classification

Name Location  Website 
Louisiana Longleaf Pine Fleming Glade United States (Louisiana)
Slash Pine Managed Forest United States (South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas)
Upper West Gulf Coastal Plain Ruderal Loblolly Pine - Shortleaf Pine Forest United States (Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas)
Upper West Gulf Coastal Plain Shortleaf Pine - Loblolly Pine Naturally Mixed Forest United States (Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma)
West Gulf Coastal Plain Clayey Longleaf Pine Woodland (Dry Type) United States (Texas, Louisiana)
West Gulf Coastal Plain Dry Loblolly Pine - Hardwood Forest United States (Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas)
West Gulf Coastal Plain Dry-Mesic Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland United States (Texas, Louisiana)
West Gulf Coastal Plain Fire-Infrequent Xeric Longleaf Pine Sandhill Woodland United States (Texas, Louisiana)
West Gulf Coastal Plain Longleaf - Mixed Pine - Sweetgum Forest United States (Louisiana, Texas)
West Gulf Coastal Plain Managed Loblolly Pine Forest United States (Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas)
West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Loblolly Pine - Mixed Hardwood Forest United States (Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana)
West Gulf Coastal Plain Mesic Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland United States (Louisiana, Texas)
West Gulf Coastal Plain Ruderal Longleaf Pine Flatwoods, Fire-Suppressed Phase United States (Louisiana)
West Gulf Coastal Plain Ruderal Slash Pine Wet Woodland United States (Louisiana)
West Gulf Coastal Plain Shortleaf Pine - Post Oak Forest United States (Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma)
West Gulf Coastal Plain Subcalcareous Pine - Hardwood Slope & Stream Bottom Forest United States (Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma)
West Gulf Coastal Plain Xeric Upland Shortleaf Pine - Oak Woodland United States (Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma)

Prey / Diet

Dendropanax arboreus (angelica tree)[4]
Parathesis villosa[4]
Quercus salicifolia[4]
Sorghastrum nutans (yellow indian-grass)[5]
Sorghum halepense (aleppo milletgrass)[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Plusaetis sibynus sibynus[6]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Reithrodontomys fulvescens, Stephen R. Spencer and Guy N. Cameron, Mammalian Species No. 174, pp. 1-7 (1982)
♦ 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
♦ 4CHARACTERISTICS OF DIET OF PEROMYSCUS AZTECUS AND REITHRODONTOMYS FULVESCENS IN MONTANE WESTERN MEXICO, LUIS BERNARDO VAZQUEZ, GUY N. CAMERON, AND RODRIGO A. MEDELLIN, Journal of Mammalogy, 85(2):196–205, 2004
♦ 5Food Habits of Peromyscus and Reithrodontomys in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma, Anthony J. Stancampiano and William Caire, Proc. Okla. Acad. Sci. 75: 45-49 (1995)
♦ 6International 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