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Meriones crassus (Sundevall's jird)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Sundevall's jird, Meriones crassus, is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Niger, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, and possibly Mali.Its natural habitat is hot deserts.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
17
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.63
EDGE Score: 1.89
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  35 grams
Birth Weight [1]  3 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  20 %
Diet - Plants [2]  50 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  20 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  61 days
Male Maturity [1]  82 days
Gestation [1]  22 days
Litter Size [1]  4
Litters / Year [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  6 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [4]  6 inches (15 cm)
Weaning [1]  20 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Azraq Wetland Reserve IV   Jordan
Wadi Rum Protected Area National Park V   Jordan  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Horn of Africa Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Oman, Somalia, Yemen 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

Anacridium aegyptium (Egyptian Locust)[5]
Citrullus colocynthis (colocynth)[5]
Peganum harmala (ozallaik)[5]
Senna alexandrina (Alexandrian Senna)[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Spermophilus xanthoprymnus (Asia Minor ground squirrel)1

Predators

Athene noctua (Little Owl)[6]
Strix butleri (Hume's Owl)[7]

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
♦ 3Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 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
♦ 5Meriones crassus, Barry R. Koffler, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 9, pp. 1-4 (1972)
♦ 6CONTRIBUTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE DIET OF IRANIAN BIRDS, Abolghasem Khaleghizadeh, Mohammad E. Sehhatisabet, Екологія, Беркут 15, Вип. 1-2. 2006. pp. 145-150
♦ 7Diet of the Omani Owl, Strix butleri, near Nakhal, Oman. Zool. Middle East 62(1): 17–20.
♦ 8International 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