World Species : Gerbilliscus brantsii (highveld gerbil)

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Gerbilliscus brantsii (highveld gerbil)

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Synonyms: Meriones maccalinus; Meriones montanus; Tatera brantsii; Tatera breyeri; Tatera draco

Wikipedia Abstract

The Highveld gerbil, Gerbilliscus brantsii, is a species of gerbil found in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, temperate shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, temperate grassland, and temperate desert.

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	79.8 grams
Birth Weight ^[2]	5 grams

Diet ^[3]	Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates ^[3]	20 %
Diet - Plants ^[3]	60 %
Diet - Seeds ^[3]	20 %
Forages - Ground ^[3]	100 %

Female Maturity ^[2]	4 months 16 days

Gestation ^[2]	23 days
Litter Size ^[2]	3
Litters / Year ^[2]	4
Maximum Longevity ^[2]	1 year
Nocturnal ^[3]	Yes
Snout to Vent Length ^[2]	8 inches (20 cm)

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Angolan Miombo woodlands	Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Angolan Mopane woodlands	Angola, Namibia	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Drakensberg alti-montane grasslands and woodlands	South Africa	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests	South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Highveld grasslands	South Africa	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
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
Maputaland coastal forest mosaic	Mozambique, Swaziland, South Africa	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets	South Africa	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Nama Karoo	Namibia, South Africa	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

Protected Areas

Name	IUCN Category	Area acres	Location
Etosha National Park	II	5699141	Namibia
Golden Gate Highlands National Park	II	28689	Free State, South Africa
Kalahari Gemsbok National Park	II	2382284	Northern Cape, South Africa
West Caprivi Game Reserve Game Park	VI	1448182	Namibia

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic	Species	Website
Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany	Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland	No
Succulent Karoo	Namibia, South Africa	No

Consumers

Parasitized by
Ctenophthalmus natalensis	^[4]
Hymenolepis taterae <Unverified Name>	^[5]
Listropsylla cerrita juliae	^[4]
Xenopsylla philoxera	^[4]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Felisa A. Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons, S. K. Morgan Ernest, Kate E. Jones, Dawn M. Kaufman, Tamar Dayan, Pablo A. Marquet, James H. Brown, and John P. Haskell. 2003. Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84:3403
♦ 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
♦ ⁴International Flea Database
♦ ⁵Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London

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