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Cryptomys damarensis (Damaraland mole-rat)

Synonyms: Bathyergus damarensis (homotypic); Cryptomys lugardi; Cryptomys micklemi; Cryptomys ovamboensis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
24
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 9.08
EDGE Score: 2.31
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  180 grams
Birth Weight [1]  9 grams
Diet [2]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  1 year 4 months
Gestation [1]  3 months 3 days
Litter Size [1]  3
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  16 years
Weaning [1]  83 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Central Kalahari Game Reserve 13047164 Ghanzi, Botswana  
Etosha National Park II 5699141 Namibia  
Mamili National Park II 83904 Namibia  
Okavango Delta System Wetland of International Importance 13683213 North-West, Botswana  
West Caprivi Game Reserve Game Park VI 1448182 Namibia  

Predators

Range Map

External References

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
♦ 3Cryptomys damarensis, Nigel C. Bennett and Jennifer U. M. Jarvis, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 756, pp. 1–5 (2004)
Ecoregions 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