Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Rodentia > Heteromyidae > Chaetodipus > Chaetodipus penicillatusChaetodipus penicillatus (desert pocket mouse)Synonyms: Perognathus penicillatus Language: Spanish The desert pocket mouse (Chaetodipus penicillatus) is a North American species of heteromyid rodent found in the southwestern United States and Mexico. True to its common name, the medium-sized desert pocket mouse prefers sandy, sparsely vegetated desert environments. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 7.4 EDGE Score: 2.13 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 17 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 10 % | | Diet - Plants [2] | 10 % | | Diet - Seeds [2] | 80 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 100 % | | | Gestation [1] | 24 days | | Litter Size [1] | 3 | | Maximum Longevity [3] | 4 years | | Nocturnal [2] | Yes | | Snout to Vent Length [3] | 3.15 inches (8 cm) |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Alto Golfo de California y Delta del Rio Colorado Biosphere Reserve |
VI |
2320468 |
Sonora, Mexico |
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Amistad National Recreation Area |
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Texas, United States |
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Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, CA |
III |
184543 |
California, United States |
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Big Bend Biosphere Reserve National Park |
II |
815561 |
Texas, United States |
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Carlsbad Caverns National Park |
II |
15448 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Chiricahua National Monument |
V |
1421 |
Arizona, United States |
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Coronado National Monument National Memorial |
III |
4360 |
Arizona, United States |
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Death Valley National Park |
II |
762125 |
California, Nevada, United States |
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Guadalupe Mountains National Park |
II |
46114 |
Texas, United States |
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Jornada Biosphere Reserve |
Ib |
30913 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Joshua Tree National Park |
II |
305076 |
California, United States |
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Lake Mead National Recreation Area |
V |
670229 |
Arizona, Nevada, United States |
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Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve |
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5901 |
California, United States |
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Organ Pipe Cactus Biosphere Reserve |
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327376 |
Arizona, United States |
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Reserva de Mapimi Biosphere Reserve |
VI |
849819 |
Chihuahua, Mexico |
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Saguaro National Park |
II |
11686 |
Arizona, United States |
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White Sands National Monument |
III |
139922 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Chaetodipus penicillatus, Stacy J. Mantooth and Troy L. Best, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 767, pp. 17 (2005) ♦ 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. ♦ 5International Flea DatabaseEcoregions 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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