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Gerbillurus setzeri (Setzer's hairy-footed gerbil)

Synonyms: Gerbilliscus setzeri (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Namib brush-tailed gerbil or Setzer's hairy-footed gerbil (Gerbillurus setzeri), is a species of gerbil in Angola and Namibia. Its natural habitats are hot deserts and temperate desert.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
22
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.15
EDGE Score: 2.21

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  36 grams
Birth Weight [2]  2 grams
Diet [3]  Granivore
Diet - Seeds [3]  100 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Gestation [1]  21 days
Litter Size [2]  3
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [2]  4.331 inches (11 cm)
Weaning [1]  25 days

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Kaokoveld desert Namibia, Angola Afrotropic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Namib desert Namibia Afrotropic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Namibian savanna woodlands Angola, Namibia Afrotropic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Dorob National Park II 2020334 Namibia      
Iona National Park 3743647 Namibe, Angola      
Namib-Naukluft National Park II 12585619 Namibia  
Skeleton Coast Game Park II 4168395 Namibia  

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Gerbillurus setzeri, Edith R. Dempster, Michael R. Perrin, Colleen T. Downs, and Michael Griffin, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 598, pp. 1-4 (1998)
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
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