World Species : Chionomys nivalis (European snow vole)

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Chionomys nivalis (European snow vole)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The European snow vole or snow vole (Chionomys nivalis and previously Microtus nivalis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It has dense, pale grey fur and a pale-coloured tail and can reach about 14 cm (5.5 in) long, with a tail which is 7 cm long.

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 8.5

EDGE Score: 2.25

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	54 grams
Birth Weight ^[2]	3.6 grams

Diet ^[3]	Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Plants ^[3]	70 %
Diet - Seeds ^[3]	30 %
Forages - Ground ^[3]	100 %

Female Maturity ^[4]	1 year

Gestation ^[2]	21 days
Litter Size ^[4]	3
Litters / Year ^[4]	2
Maximum Longevity ^[4]	2 years

Ecoregions

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Protected Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic
Caucasus	Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Russia, Turkey	No
Irano-Anatolian	Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Turkmenistan	No
Mediterranean Basin	Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey	No

Prey / Diet

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Prey / Diet Overlap

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Predators

Accipiter nisus (Eurasian Sparrowhawk)	^[2]
Vipera berus (Adder, Northern Viper)	^[2]

Consumers

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Parasitized by
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Amalaraeus arvicolae	^[6]
Amalaraeus improvisus	^[6]
Amalaraeus penicilliger kratochvili	^[6]
Amalaraeus penicilliger mustelae	^[6]
Amalaraeus penicilliger penicilliger	^[6]
Amphipsylla kuznetzovi kuznetzovi	^[6]
Amphipsylla rossica	^[6]
Amphipsylla sibirica hetera	^[6]
Amphipsylla sibirica sepifera	^[6]
Amphipsylla socia	^[6]
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Anoplocephaloides dentata	^[5]
Anoplocephaloides rauschi	^[5]
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Aspiculuris aserbaidjanica	^[5]
Aspiculuris dinniki	^[5]
Aspiculuris tetraptera	^[5]
Atyphloceras nuperus	^[6]
Callopsylla caspia caspia	^[6]
Callopsylla saxatilis	^[6]
Carolinensis minutus	^[5]
Catenotaenia cricetorum	^[5]
Ctenophthalmus acuminatus	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus agyrtes impavidus	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus agyrtes provincialis	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus agyrtes serbicus	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus agyrtes verbanus	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus andorrensis andorrensis	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus baeticus baeticus	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus baeticus boisseauorum	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus bifurcus	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus bogatschevi bogatschevi	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus bureschi anatolicus	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus chionomydis	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus congener congener	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus egregius egregius	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus golovi alpestris	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus intermedius	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus iranus iranus	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus nifetodes tvrtkovici	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus nivalis cervinus	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus nivalis nivalis	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus nobilis nobilis	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus orphilus dolomiticus	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus orphilus orphilus	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus proximus	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus rettigi rettigi	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus shovi	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus teres	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus ubayensis	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus ubayensis ianlinni	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus uncinatus uncinatus	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus wagneri krym	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus wagneri schuriscus	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus wagneri wagneri	^[6]
Ctenophthalmus wladimiri	^[6]
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Doratopsylla dampfi dampfi	^[6]
Echinococcus multilocularis	^[5]
Frontopsylla elata caucasica	^[6]
Heligmosomoides glareoli	^[5]
Heligmosomoides laevis	^[5]
Heligmosomoides tatricus	^[5]
Heligmosomum costellatum	^[5]
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Hydatigera taeniaeformis	^[5]
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Hystrichopsylla orientalis	^[6]
Hystrichopsylla satunini	^[6]
Hystrichopsylla talpae talpae	^[6]
Leptopsylla nana	^[6]
Leptopsylla sciurobia	^[6]
Leptopsylla taschenbergi cressida	^[6]
Leptopsylla taschenbergi taschenbergi	^[6]
Mastophorus muris	^[5]
Megabothris rectangulatus	^[6]
Megabothris turbidus	^[6]
Molineus patens	^[5]
Myoxopsylla laverani laverani	^[6]
Nosopsyllus durii	^[6]
Palaeopsylla soricis soricis	^[6]
Paradoxopsyllus hesperius	^[6]
Paraneopsylla dampfi	^[6]
Paranoplocephala gracilis	^[5]
Paranoplocephala macrocephala	^[5]
Paranoplocephala omphalodes	^[5]
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Peromyscopsylla bidentata bidentata	^[6]
Peromyscopsylla fallax	^[6]
Peromyscopsylla silvatica	^[6]
Peromyscopsylla spectabilis viatrix	^[6]
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Pterygodermatites kolimensis	^[5]
Rhadinopsylla caucasica	^[6]
Rhadinopsylla integella	^[6]
Rhadinopsylla mesa	^[6]
Rhadinopsylla mesoides	^[6]
Rictularia proni	^[5]
Rodentolepis asymmetrica	^[5]
Stenoponia ivanovi	^[6]
Syphacia nigeriana	^[5]
Taenia hydatigena (thin-necked bladderworm)	^[5]
Taenia mustelae	^[5]
Trichinella britovi	^[5]
Trichuris muris	^[5]
Wagnerina schelkovnikovi	^[6]

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External References

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Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Felisa A. Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons, S. K. Morgan Ernest, Kate E. Jones, Dawn M. Kaufman, Tamar Dayan, Pablo A. Marquet, James H. Brown, and John P. Haskell. 2003. Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84:3403
♦ ²SNOW VOLE - Chionomys nivalis (Martins 1842), Janeau G., Aulagnier S., IBEX J.M.E. 4:1997
♦ ³Hamish 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
♦ ⁴Nathan 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
♦ ⁵Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ ⁶International 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

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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