World Species : Stylodipus telum (thick-tailed three-toed jerboa)

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Stylodipus telum (thick-tailed three-toed jerboa)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The thick-tailed three-toed jerboa (Stylodipus telum) is a species of rodent in the family Dipodidae. It is found in China, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Its typical habitat is steppe, desert and mountain grassland where it is often found among saltbush and Artemisia in sandy or clayey soils.

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 10.21

EDGE Score: 2.42

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	57 grams

Diet ^[2]	Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Plants ^[2]	70 %
Diet - Seeds ^[2]	30 %
Forages - Ground ^[2]	100 %

Litter Size ^[1]	3
Litters / Year ^[1]	1
Nocturnal ^[2]	Yes
Snout to Vent Length ^[1]	5 inches (13 cm)

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Altai alpine meadow and tundra	China, Kazakstan, Mongolia, Russia	Palearctic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Altai montane forest and forest steppe	China, Kazakstan, Mongolia, Russia	Palearctic	Temperate Coniferous Forests
Altai steppe and semi-desert	Kazahkstan	Palearctic	Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Caspian lowland desert	Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran	Palearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Central Asian northern desert	Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan	Palearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Central Asian riparian woodlands	Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan	Palearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Central Asian southern desert	Turkmenistan stretching, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan	Palearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Emin Valley steppe	China, Kazakstan	Palearctic	Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Junggar Basin semi-desert	China, Kazakstan, Mongolia	Palearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Kazakh semi-desert	Kazakhstan	Palearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Kazakh steppe	Russia, Kazakhstan	Palearctic	Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Kazakh upland	Kazahkstan	Palearctic	Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Pontic steppe	Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine	Palearctic	Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Tian Shan foothill arid steppe	China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan	Palearctic	Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Tian Shan montane steppe and meadows	China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan	Palearctic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic	Species	Website
Caucasus	Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Russia, Turkey	No
Mountains of Central Asia	Afghanistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan	No

Consumers

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Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Nathan 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
♦ 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
♦ ³Jorrit 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