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Chaetodipus fallax (San Diego pocket mouse)

Synonyms: Perognathus fallax
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The San Diego pocket mouse (Chaetodipus fallax) is a rodent species in the family Heteromyidae. It occupies the southern region of Baja California near San Diego extending into Mexico.
View Wikipedia Record: Chaetodipus fallax

Infraspecies

Chaetodipus fallax anthonyi
Chaetodipus fallax fallax (Northwestern San Diego Pocket Mouse)
Chaetodipus fallax inopinus
Chaetodipus fallax majusculus
Chaetodipus fallax pallidus (Pallid San Diego Pocket Mouse)
Chaetodipus fallax xerotrophicus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
6
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
29
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 13.12
EDGE Score: 2.65
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  19 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]  5 months 16 days
Male Maturity [1]  5 months 16 days
Gestation [1]  25 days
Litter Size [1]  3
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  8 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [4]  3.15 inches (8 cm)
Speed [5]  7.069 MPH (3.16 m/s)

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

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Meringis californicus[6]
Meringis cummingi[6]
Orchopeas leucopus (rodent flea)[6]

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
♦ 5Chaetodipus fallax, James Alden Lackey, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 517, pp. 1-6 (1996)
♦ 6International 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