World Species : Meriones tamariscinus (Tamarisk jird)

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Meriones tamariscinus (Tamarisk jird)

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Synonyms: Gerbillus ciscaucasicus; Gerbillus tamaricinus jaxartensis; Gerbillus tamaricinus satschouensis; Meriones tamaricinus kokandicus; Mus tamariscinus (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The tamarisk jird (Meriones tamariscinus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 10.55

EDGE Score: 2.45

Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

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 %

Litter Size ^[1]	4
Litters / Year ^[1]	2
Maximum Longevity ^[3]	4 years
Nocturnal ^[2]	Yes
Weaning ^[1]	17 days

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Alai-Western Tian Shan steppe	Kazahkstan, Uzbekistan, Tadjikistan	Palearctic	Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Altai alpine meadow and tundra	China, Kazakstan, Mongolia, Russia	Palearctic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Altai steppe and semi-desert	Kazahkstan	Palearctic	Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Badghyz and Karabil semi-desert	Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Tajikistan	Palearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Caspian lowland desert	Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran	Palearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Central Asian northern desert	Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan	Palearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Central Asian riparian woodlands	Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan	Palearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Central Asian southern desert	Turkmenistan stretching, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan	Palearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Emin Valley steppe	China, Kazakstan	Palearctic	Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Gissaro-Alai open woodlands	Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan	Palearctic	Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Junggar Basin semi-desert	China, Kazakstan, Mongolia	Palearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Kazakh semi-desert	Kazakhstan	Palearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Kazakh steppe	Russia, Kazakhstan	Palearctic	Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Paropamisus xeric woodlands	Afghanistan	Palearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Pontic steppe	Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine	Palearctic	Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Taklimakan desert	China	Palearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Tian Shan foothill arid steppe	China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan	Palearctic	Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Tian Shan montane conifer forests	China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan	Palearctic	Temperate Coniferous Forests
Tian Shan montane steppe and meadows	China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan	Palearctic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name	IUCN Category	Area acres	Location
Amudarya Zapovednik State Nature Reserve	Ia	152861	Lebap, Turkmenistan
Astrakhanskiy Biosphere Reserve Zapovednik	Ia	167827	Astrakhan, Russia
Chernye Zemli Biosphere Reserve Zapovednik	IV	621951	Russia

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic	Species	Website
Caucasus	Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Russia, Turkey	No
Mountains of Central Asia	Afghanistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan	No

Consumers

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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
♦ ⁴International Flea Database
♦ ⁵Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ ⁶Jorrit 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.

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