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Gerbillus burtoni (Burton's gerbil)

Wikipedia Abstract

Burton's gerbil, Gerbillus burtoni is distributed mainly in Darfur, Sudan. Less than 250 individuals of this species of gerbil are thought to persist in the wild. It is named after R. F. Burton who had the gerbil in his menagerie, obtained from Darfur and described by Frédéric Cuvier.
View Wikipedia Record: Gerbillus burtoni

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Not determined do to incomplete vulnerability data.
ED Score: 6.54
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Attributes

Diet [1]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [1]  20 %
Diet - Plants [1]  50 %
Diet - Seeds [1]  30 %
Forages - Ground [1]  100 %

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
East Saharan montane xeric woodlands Chad, Sudan Afrotropic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Hamish 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