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Mus spretus (Algerian mouse)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Algerian mouse, or western Mediterranean mouse, (Mus spretus) is a wild species of mouse closely related to the house mouse, native to open habitats around the western Mediterranean.
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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]  12.8 grams
Birth Weight [2]  1 grams
Male Weight [2]  15 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  20 %
Diet - Plants [3]  60 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  20 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [2]  42 days
Male Maturity [2]  49 days
Gestation [4]  19 days
Litter Size [4]  5
Litters / Year [2]  5
Maximum Longevity [2]  6 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [2]  3.937 inches (10 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mediterranean Basin Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey No

Predators

Elanus caeruleus (Black-winged Kite)[5]
Hemorrhois hippocrepis (Horseshoe Snake)[6]
Tyto alba (Barn Owl)[4]
Zamenis scalaris (Ladder Snakes)[7]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Felisa A. Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons, S. K. Morgan Ernest, Kate E. Jones, Dawn M. Kaufman, Tamar Dayan, Pablo A. Marquet, James H. Brown, and John P. Haskell. 2003. Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84:3403
♦ 2Nathan 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
♦ 3Hamish 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
♦ 4Mus spretus (Rodentia: Muridae), L. JAVIER PALOMO, ENRIQUE R. JUSTO, AND J. MARIO VARGAS, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 840:1–10 (2009)
♦ 5COMMUNAL ROOSTING AND DIET OF BLACK-SHOULDERED KITES (ELANUS CAERULEUS) WINTERING IN SOUTHWESTERN SPAIN, Deseada Parejo, Jesús M. Avilés, Juan J. Ferrero, Domingo Rivera and José M. Casas, J Raptor Res. 35(2):162-164 (2001)
♦ 6Body size, diet and reproductive ecology of Coluber hippocrepis in the Rif (Northern Morocco), Juan M. Pleguezuelos, Soumia Fahd, Amphibia-Reptilia 25: 287-302 (2004)
♦ 7Correlates between morphology, diet and foraging mode in the Ladder Snake Rhinechis scalaris (Schinz, 1822), Juan M. Pleguezuelos , Juan R. Fernández-Cardenete , Santiago Honrubia , Mónica Feriche , Carmen Villafranca, Contributions to Zoology, 76 (3) – 2007
♦ 8Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 9International 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