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Cardiocranius paradoxus (five-toed pygmy jerboa)

Wikipedia Abstract

The five-toed pygmy jerboa (Cardiocranius paradoxus) is a species of rodent in the family Dipodidae. It is monotypic within the genus Cardiocranius.It is found in China, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia.Its natural habitat is temperate desert.It is threatened by habitat loss.
View Wikipedia Record: Cardiocranius paradoxus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
11
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Not determined do to incomplete vulnerability data.
ED Score: 22.4
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Diet [1]  Granivore
Diet - Seeds [1]  100 %
Forages - Ground [1]  100 %
Hibernates [2]  Yes
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  3.15 inches (8 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Ubsunurskaya Kotlovina (Ubsunur Depression) Zapovednik Ia 798640 Tuva, Russia

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mountains of Central Asia Afghanistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan No

Prey / Diet

Artemisia sublessingiana[4]
Krascheninnikovia ceratoides (Pamirian winterfat)[4]
Stipa capillata[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Bucanetes mongolicus (Mongolian Finch)1
Capra sibirica (Siberian ibex)1
Phodopus campbelli (Campbell's hamster)1
Procapra gutturosa (Mongolian gazelle)1
Pseudois nayaur (bharal)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Abbreviata boevi <Unverified Name>[5]
Amphipsylla longispina longispina[6]
Eulinognathus cardiocranius[7]
Xenopsylla skrjabini[6]

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
♦ 2Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 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
♦ 4"On the Biology of the Five-Toed Pygmy Jerboa (CARDIOCRANIUS PARADOXUS Satunin, 1902) in Kazakhstan: New Data", V. S. Gromov, B. Eszhanov, Russian Journal of Ecology January 2004, Volume 35, Issue 1, pp 55-58
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 6International Flea Database
♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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