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Myopus schisticolor (wood lemming)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The wood lemming (Myopus schisticolor) is a species of rodents in the family Cricetidae. It belongs to the Arvicolinae subfamily of rodents, so is a relative of the voles, lemmings, and muskrats.It is found in the taiga biome of China, Finland, Mongolia, Norway, Russia, and Sweden.
View Wikipedia Record: Myopus schisticolor

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
6
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
29
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 13.04
EDGE Score: 2.64
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  25 grams
Birth Weight [1]  3 grams
Diet [2]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  33 days
Gestation [1]  22 days
Litter Size [1]  5
Litters / Year [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [3]  2 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  4.331 inches (11 cm)
Weaning [1]  20 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Hylocomium splendens (splendid feather moss)[4]
Pleurozium schreberi (Schreber's big red stem moss)[4]
Ptilium crista-castrensis (knights plume moss)[4]

Predators

Buteo buteo (Common Buzzard)[5]
Strix nebulosa (Great Grey Owl)[5]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 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
♦ 4Diet of the wood lemming Myopus schisticolor, Olavi Eskelinen, Ann. Zool. Fennici 39: 49–57
♦ 5Jorrit 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.
♦ 6International Flea Database
♦ 7Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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