Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Rodentia > Cricetidae > Reithrodontomys > Reithrodontomys montanus

Reithrodontomys montanus (plains harvest mouse)

Synonyms: Reithrodon montanus (homotypic); Reithrodontomys albescens; Reithrodontomys griseus
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The plains harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys montanus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in northern Mexico and the central United States.
View Wikipedia Record: Reithrodontomys montanus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
21
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.22
EDGE Score: 2.11
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  11 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]  60 days
Male Maturity [1]  60 days
Gestation [1]  21 days
Litter Size [1]  4
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

Prey / Diet

Helianthus maximiliani (Maximilian sunflower)[1]
Sorghastrum nutans (yellow indian-grass)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Reithrodontomys fulvescens (fulvous harvest mouse)1

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Reithrodontomys montanus, Kenneth T. Wilkins, Mammalian Species No. 257, pp. 1-5 (1986)
♦ 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
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