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Graomys griseoflavus (gray leaf-eared mouse)

Synonyms: Graomys lockwoodi; Graomys medius; Phyllotis cachinus; Phyllotis chacoensis

Wikipedia Abstract

The gray leaf-eared mouse, Graomys griseoflavus, is a rodent species from South America. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay; its habitat includes the Gran Chaco.
View Wikipedia Record: Graomys griseoflavus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
17
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.27
EDGE Score: 1.84

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  67.5 grams
Diet [2]  Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  30 %
Diet - Plants [2]  40 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  30 %
Forages - Scansorial [2]  100 %
Litter Size [3]  7
Snout to Vent Length [3]  7 inches (17 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Atlantic Forest Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

Predators

Glaucidium brasilianum (Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl)[4]

Consumers

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
4FIELD NOTES ON THE BREEDING BIOLOGY AND DIET OF FERRUGINOUS PYGMY-OWL (GLAUCIDIUM BRASILIANUM) IN THE DRY CHACO OF ARGENTINA, Joaquín D. Carrera, Fernando J. Fernández, Federico P. Kacoliris, Luis Pagano, & Igor Berkunsky, ORNITOLOGIA NEOTROPICAL 19: 315–319, 2008
5International 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