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Reithrodontomys sumichrasti (vesper rat)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Sumichrast's harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys sumichrasti) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama.
View Wikipedia Record: Reithrodontomys sumichrasti

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
8
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
33
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 17.09
EDGE Score: 2.9
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  47 grams
Birth Weight [2]  5 grams
Diet [3]  Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [3]  40 %
Diet - Plants [3]  20 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  40 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Gestation [2]  30 days
Litter Size [2]  2
Litters / Year [2]  5
Maximum Longevity [2]  6 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [1]  5 inches (13 cm)
Weaning [2]  21 days
Male Maturity [1]  61 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru No

Prey / Diet

Bonellia macrocarpa pungens[4]
Cordia diversifolia[4]
Daphnopsis americana (burn nose)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Patagioenas fasciata (Band-tailed Pigeon)1
Patagioenas flavirostris (Red-billed Pigeon)1
Turdus plebejus (Mountain Thrush)1

Predators

Chrotopterus auritus (big-eared woolly bat)[5]
Geranospiza caerulescens (Crane Hawk)[6]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Androlaelaps fahrenholzi[4]
Baculomeris altmani[7]
Jellisonia johnsonae[7]
Kohlsia cora[7]
Plusaetis dolens dolens[7]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan 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
♦ 2de 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
♦ 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
♦ 4Nyctomys sumichrasti, John L. Hunt, James E. Morris, and Troy L. Best, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 754, pp. 1–6 (2004)
♦ 5Chrotopterus auritus, Rodrigo A. Medellín, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 343, pp. 1-5 (1989)
♦ 6del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 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