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Peromyscus aztecus (Aztec mouse)

Synonyms: Peromyscus boylii cordillerae; Peromyscus hondurensis; Peromyscus hylocetes yautepecus; Peromyscus oaxacensis; Peromyscus spicilegus evides

Wikipedia Abstract

The Aztec mouse (Peromyscus aztecus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae, native to southern Mexico and parts of Central America.
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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: 4.38
EDGE Score: 1.68
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  29 grams
Birth Weight [2]  2 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore
Diet - Fruit [3]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  50 %
Diet - Scavenger [3]  10 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  20 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [2]  53 days
Gestation [2]  25 days
Litter Size [2]  3
Litters / Year [2]  4
Maximum Longevity [2]  2 years
Nocturnal [4]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [2]  4.331 inches (11 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Iztaccihuatl-Popocatepetl National Park II 224456 Mexico State, Mexico
Reserva de la Biosfera Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve VI 955579 Queretaro, Mexico  

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

Prey / Diet

Dendropanax arboreus (angelica tree)[5]
Parathesis villosa[5]
Quercus salicifolia[5]
Solanum nigricans (Yerba mora;)[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Canis latrans (Coyote)[6]
Chrotopterus auritus (big-eared woolly bat)[7]
Lynx rufus (Bobcat)[6]
Mustela frenata (Long-tailed Weasel)[6]
Tyto alba (Barn Owl)[6]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Peromyscus aztecus, Luis Bernardo Vázquez, Guy N. Cameron, Rodrigo A. Medellín, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 649, pp. 1–4 (2001)
♦ 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
♦ 4Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 5CHARACTERISTICS OF DIET OF PEROMYSCUS AZTECUS AND REITHRODONTOMYS FULVESCENS IN MONTANE WESTERN MEXICO, LUIS BERNARDO VAZQUEZ, GUY N. CAMERON, AND RODRIGO A. MEDELLIN, Journal of Mammalogy, 85(2):196–205, 2004
♦ 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.
♦ 7Chrotopterus auritus, Rodrigo A. Medellín, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 343, pp. 1-5 (1989)
♦ 8International 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