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Chiropodomys calamianensis (Palawan pencil-tailed tree mouse)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Palawan pencil-tailed tree mouse (Chiropodomys calamianensis) is a species of arboreal rodent in the family Muridae. It is endemic to the Palawan Faunal Region in the Philippines.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Not determined do to incomplete vulnerability data.
ED Score: 7.43
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  29 grams
Diet [2]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  100 %
Forages - Arboreal [2]  100 %
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [1]  4.331 inches (11 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Palawan rain forests Philippines Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Malampaya Sound Protected Landscape/Seascape 496158 Philippines      
Palawan Biosphere Reserve 2843689 Philippines  
Palawan Game Refuge 1886402 Philippines  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Philippines Philippines Yes

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan 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
♦ 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
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