World Species : Gerbillurus paeba (hairy-footed gerbil)

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Gerbillurus paeba (hairy-footed gerbil)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The hairy-footed gerbil, Gerbillurus paeba, is a species of gerbil found in Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, temperate shrubland, hot deserts, sandy shores, and urban areas.

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 8.15

EDGE Score: 2.21

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	25 grams
Birth Weight ^[2]	2 grams

Diet ^[3]	Granivore
Diet - Seeds ^[3]	100 %
Forages - Ground ^[3]	100 %

Female Maturity ^[2]	74 days

Gestation ^[1]	21 days
Litter Size ^[1]	4
Maximum Longevity ^[2]	3 years
Nocturnal ^[3]	Yes
Snout to Vent Length ^[2]	4.331 inches (11 cm)
Weaning ^[1]	21 days

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Albany thickets	South Africa	Afrotropic	Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub
Angolan Mopane woodlands	Angola, Namibia	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests	South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Etosha Pan halophytics	Namibia	Afrotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands	Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Kalahari xeric savanna	Botswana, Namibia, South Africa	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Kaokoveld desert	Namibia, Angola	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Knysna-Amatole montane forests	South Africa	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Lowland fynbos and renosterveld	South Africa	Afrotropic	Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub
Montane fynbos and renosterveld	South Africa	Afrotropic	Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub
Nama Karoo	Namibia, South Africa	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Namib desert	Namibia	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Namibian savanna woodlands	Angola, Namibia	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Southern Africa bushveld	Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Southern Miombo woodlands	Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Succulent Karoo	Namibia, South Africa	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Zambezian and Mopane woodlands	South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Namibia, Malawi	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands	Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Zambezian flooded grasslands	Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia	Afrotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Zambezian halophytics	Mozambique, Botswana	Afrotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas

Protected Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic
Cape Floristic Region	South Africa	No
Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany	Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland	No
Succulent Karoo	Namibia, South Africa	No

Prey / Diet

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Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing Species	Common Prey Count
Crithagra flaviventris (Yellow Canary)	1

Predators

Bubo africanus (Spotted Eagle-Owl)	^[1]
Canis mesomelas (Black-backed Jackal)	^[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by
Xenopsylla davisi	^[5]
Xenopsylla sulcata	^[5]
Xenopsylla trifaria	^[5]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Gerbillurus paeba, Michael R. Perrin, Edith R. Dempster, and Colleen T. Downs, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 606, pp. 1-6 (1999)
♦ ²Nathan 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
♦ 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
♦ ⁴Jorrit 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.
♦ ⁵International 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