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Allactaga hotsoni (Hotson's jerboa)

Synonyms: Allactaga firouzi; Scarturus hotsoni (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Hotson's jerboa or the Iranian jerboa (Allactaga hotsoni) , is a species of rodent in the family Dipodidae. It is found in Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
6
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
29
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 13.18
EDGE Score: 2.65
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Attributes

Diet [1]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [1]  20 %
Diet - Plants [1]  30 %
Diet - Seeds [1]  50 %
Forages - Ground [1]  100 %
Maximum Longevity [2]  2 years
Nocturnal [1]  Yes

Ecoregions

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Nosopsyllus afghanus[3]
Xenopsylla conformis conformis[3]

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
♦ 3International Flea Database
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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