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Eozapus setchuanus (Chinese jumping mouse)

Synonyms: Zapus setchuanus vicinus

Wikipedia Abstract

The Chinese jumping mouse (Eozapus setchuanus) is a species of rodent in the family Dipodidae. It is monotypic within the genus Eozapus. It is endemic to China where its natural habitat is temperate forests, steppes and meadows in mountainous regions. It is tolerant of some degree of habitat destruction, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being of "least concern".
View Wikipedia Record: Eozapus setchuanus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
6
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
29
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 12.68
EDGE Score: 2.62
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  17 grams
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  3.937 inches (10 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Bitahai Nature Reserve V 49655 Yunnan, China  
Sanjiangyuan Nature Reserve 37634150 Qinghai, China      

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Frontopsylla megasinus[4]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Original biological and ecological data on the endemic Chinese jumping mouse Eozapus setchuanus (Pousargues, 1896), Jean-Pierre Quéré, Francis Raoul, Vladimir Aniskin, Marie-Claude Durette-Desset, and Patrick Giraudoux, Mamm Biol. 2009 November 1; 74(6): 507–513
♦ 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
♦ 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
♦ 4International 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