Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Rodentia > Cricetidae > Reithrodontomys > Reithrodontomys humulisReithrodontomys humulis (eastern harvest mouse)Synonyms: Mus carolinensis; Mus humulis (homotypic); Mus lecontii; Reithrodontomys humilis; Reithrodontomys humulis dickinsoni; Reithrodontomys humulis virginianus; Reithrodontomys lecontii impiger; Reithrodontomys merriami The eastern harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys humulis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found only in the United States.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, swamps, and pastureland. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 7.22 EDGE Score: 2.11 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 10 grams | | Birth Weight [1] | 1 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Granivore, Herbivore | | Diet - Plants [2] | 50 % | | Diet - Seeds [2] | 50 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 100 % | | | Female Maturity [1] | 3 months 15 days | | | Gestation [1] | 23 days | | Litter Size [1] | 3 | | Litters / Year [3] | 4 | | Maximum Longevity [3] | 2 years | | Nocturnal [2] | Yes | | Snout to Vent Length [3] | 2.756 inches (7 cm) | | Weaning [1] | 23 days |
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IUCN Category |
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Species |
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Climate |
Land Use |
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Antietam National Battlefield |
III |
3263 |
Maryland, United States |
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Big Cypress National Preserve |
V |
732120 |
Florida, United States |
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Big Thicket Biosphere Reserve National Park |
II |
616880 |
Texas, United States |
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Cape Hatteras National Seashore |
II |
21476 |
North Carolina, United States |
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Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge |
IV |
8964 |
South Carolina, United States |
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Carolinian-South Atlantic Biosphere Reserve |
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310228 |
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, United States |
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Central Gulf Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve |
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40530 |
United States |
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Colonial National Historic Park National Historical Park |
V |
9316 |
Virginia, United States |
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Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research |
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North Carolina, United States |
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park |
II |
515454 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Guilford Courthouse National Military Park |
V |
216 |
North Carolina, United States |
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Horseshoe Bend National Military Park |
V |
1926 |
Alabama, United States |
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Land Between the Lakes Biosphere Reserve |
V |
166264 |
Kentucky, Tennessee, United States |
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Little River National Wildlife Refuge |
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Oklahoma, United States |
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Mammoth Cave Area Biosphere Reserve (Natn'l Park) National Park |
II |
51235 |
Kentucky, United States |
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Oak Ridge National Environmental Research Park |
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20001 |
Tennessee, United States |
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Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge |
IV |
38256 |
Florida, United States |
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Shiloh National Military Park |
III |
4061 |
Tennessee, United States |
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Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve |
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37548505 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Tennessee River Gorge |
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Tennessee, United States |
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Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge |
IV |
26618 |
Alabama, United States |
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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 ♦ 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 ♦ 4Jorrit 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. ♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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