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Chaetodipus eremicus (eastern desert pocket mouse)

Synonyms: Perognathus eremicus

Wikipedia Abstract

The Chihuahuan pocket mouse (Chaetodipus eremicus) is a species of heteromyid rodent found in the southwestern United States and Mexico. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the desert pocket mouse (C. pencillatus), but was determined to be a distinct species in 1996, following analysis of its mitochondrial DNA.
View Wikipedia Record: Chaetodipus eremicus

Infraspecies

Chaetodipus eremicus atrodorsalis
Chaetodipus eremicus eremicus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
21
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.4
EDGE Score: 2.13
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  19 grams
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Gestation [3]  26 days
Litter Size [1]  4
Maximum Longevity [3]  4 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  3.15 inches (8 cm)

Ecoregions

Biodiversity Hotspots

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

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Carteretta carteri[1]
Coccidioides immitis[1]
Fahrenholzia pinnata[1]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Chaetodipus eremicus, Stacy J. Mantooth and Troy L. Best, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 768, pp. 1–3 (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
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