World Species : Mus tenellus (delicate mouse)

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Mus tenellus (delicate mouse)

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Synonyms: Leggada tenella (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The delicate mouse (Mus tenellus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and possibly Eritrea.Its natural habitat is dry savanna.

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 3.32

EDGE Score: 1.46

Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Diet ^[1]	Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates ^[1]	20 %
Diet - Plants ^[1]	60 %
Diet - Seeds ^[1]	20 %
Forages - Ground ^[1]	100 %

Litter Size ^[2]	2
Nocturnal ^[1]	Yes

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
East African montane forests	Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
East Sudanian savanna	Chad, Central African Republic, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Ethiopian montane forests	Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Ethiopian montane grasslands and woodlands	Ethiopia, Eritrea	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Masai xeric grasslands and shrublands	Kenya	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Northern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic	Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Sahelian Acacia savanna	Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets	Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name	IUCN Category	Area acres	Location
Borana Controlled Hunting Area		11210183	Oromīya, Ethiopia
Mahale Mountains National Park	II	398414	Tanzania
Nechisar National Park	II	256137	Ethiopia

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic
Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa	Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania	No
Eastern Afromontane	Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe	No
Horn of Africa	Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Oman, Somalia, Yemen	No

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Hamish 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
♦ 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

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