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Calomys tener (delicate vesper mouse)

Wikipedia Abstract

The delicate vesper mouse, Calomys tener, is a South American rodent species of the family Cricetidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil. Its karyotype has 2n = 66 and FN = 66.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
14
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.4
EDGE Score: 1.69
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  13.8 grams
Diet [2]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Gestation [3]  25 days
Litter Size [3]  5
Maximum Longevity [3]  2 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  3.937 inches (10 cm)

Ecoregions

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Cerrado Brazil Yes

Predators

Buteo albicaudatus (White-tailed Hawk)[4]
Chrysocyon brachyurus (Maned Wolf)[5]
Pseudoscops clamator (Striped Owl)[6]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Craneopsylla minerva minerva[7]
Polygenis tripus[7]

Range Map

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
♦ 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
♦ 4Granzinolli MA, & JC Motta-Júnior. 2006. Small mammal selection by the White-tailed Hawk in southeastern Brazil Wilson J. Ornithol. 118: 91–98
♦ 5Small mammal selection and functional response in the diet of the maned wolf, Chrysocyon brachyurus (mammalia: Canidae), in southeast Brazil, Adriana A. Bueno and José Carlos Motta-Junior, Mastozoologia Neotropical 13.1 (Jan 2006): p11(9)
♦ 6Motta-Junior, JC, C. J R. Alho, and S. C S. Belentani. 2004. Food habits of the Striped Owl Asio clamator in southeast Brazil Pages 777–784 in Raptors worldwide: proceedings of the VI world conference on birds of prey and owls (R. Chancellor and B.-U. Meyburg, Eds.)
♦ 7International 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