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Chaetodipus formosus (long-tailed pocket mouse)

Synonyms: Chacetodipus formosus; Perognathus formosus
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The long-tailed pocket mouse (Chaetodipus formosus) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae.It is found in Arizona, California, Nevada and Utah in the United States and Baja California in Mexico.
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Infraspecies

Chaetodipus formosus cinerascens
Chaetodipus formosus formosus
Chaetodipus formosus incolatus
Chaetodipus formosus infolatus
Chaetodipus formosus melanurus
Chaetodipus formosus mesembrinus
Chaetodipus formosus mohavensis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
10
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
36
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 20.95
EDGE Score: 3.09
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  19 grams
Birth Weight [1]  1 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  10 %
Diet - Plants [2]  10 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  80 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  1 year
Male Maturity [1]  1 year
Gestation [1]  28 days
Litter Size [1]  5
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  7 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [4]  7 inches (19 cm)
Weaning [1]  25 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No

Predators

Arizona elegans (arenicola)[5]
Vulpes velox (Swift Fox)[6]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Carteretta clavata[7]
Fahrenholzia reducta[6]
Meringis dipodomys[7]
Thrassis bacchi gladiolis[7]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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
♦ 3Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 4Nathan 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
♦ 5Food Habit of the Glossy Snake, Arizona elegans, with Comparisons to the Diet of Sympatric Long-nosed Snakes, Rhinocheilus lecontei, Javier A. Rodríguez-Robles, Christopher J. Bell, Harry W. Greene, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 87-92, 1999
♦ 6Jorrit 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.
♦ 7International 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