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Mus caroli (Ryukyu mouse)

Synonyms: Mus caroli formosanus; Mus formosanus; Mus kurilensis

Wikipedia Abstract

The Ryukyu mouse (Mus caroli) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
View Wikipedia Record: Mus caroli

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
9
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.79
EDGE Score: 1.33
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  11 grams
Birth Weight [1]  1 grams
Male Weight [3]  15 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  20 %
Diet - Plants [2]  60 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  20 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [3]  53 days
Male Maturity [3]  42 days
Gestation [1]  21 days
Litter Size [3]  6
Litters / Year [3]  5
Maximum Longevity [3]  6 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  3.937 inches (10 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No

Predators

Tyto longimembris (Eastern Grass Owl)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Heligmonoides ryukyensis <Unverified Name>[5]
Hymenolepis diminuta[5]
Neopsylla bana[6]
Protospirura okinavensis <Unverified Name>[5]
Schistosoma sinensium[5]

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
♦ 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
♦ 4Initial Investigation on the Diet of Eastern Grass Owl (Tyto longimembris) in Southern Taiwan, Wen-Loung Lin, Yin Wang and Hui-Yun Tseng, Taiwania, 52(1): 100-105, 2007
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 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