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Sigmodon fulviventer (tawny-bellied cotton rat)

Synonyms: Sigmodon fulviventer goldmani; Sigmodon melanotis; Sigmodon minimus; Sigmodon minimus goldmani; Sigmodon minimus woodi
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The tawny-bellied cotton rat (Sigmodon fulviventer) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in Mexico and in the US states of Arizona and New Mexico.
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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: 3.88
EDGE Score: 1.58
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  215 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  50 %
Diet - Plants [2]  50 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [3]  43 days
Gestation [3]  36 days
Litter Size [3]  6
Snout to Vent Length [3]  7 inches (18 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Coronado National Monument National Memorial III 4360 Arizona, United States
Reserva de la Michilia Biosphere Reserve VI 23405 Durango, Mexico  

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

Buteo albonotatus (Zone-tailed Hawk)[4]
Buteo jamaicensis (Red-tailed Hawk)[4]
Canis latrans (Coyote)[4]
Cathartes aura (Turkey Vulture)[4]
Falco sparverius (American Kestrel)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Litomosoides carinii[1]
Polygenis martinezbaezi[1]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Sigmodon fulviventer, Rollin H. Baker and Karl A. Shump, Jr., MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 94, pp. 1-4 (1978)
♦ 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.
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