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Phyllotis darwini (Darwin's leaf-eared mouse)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Darwin's leaf-eared mouse (Phyllotis darwini) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It has terrestrial habits and is endemic to coastal central and northern Chile. It is also found in the Atacama Desert.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
12
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.78
EDGE Score: 1.56
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  51 grams
Diet [2]  Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  60 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  40 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [3]  57 days
Gestation [1]  34 days
Litter Size [1]  4
Maximum Longevity [3]  4 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  6 inches (15 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Chilean matorral Chile Neotropic Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub
Valdivian temperate forests Chile, Argentina Neotropic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forests Chile Yes

Prey / Diet

Myrcianthes coquimbensis[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Abrothrix olivaceus (Manso grass mouse)1
Octodon degus (Degus)1

Predators

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de 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
♦ 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
♦ 4Loayza, Andrea et al. (2017), Data from: Fruit size determines the role of three scatter-hoarding rodents as dispersers or seed predators of a fleshy-fruited Atacama Desert shrub, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.13pb4
♦ 5Predation upon small mammals in shrublands and grasslands of southern South America: ecological correlates and presumable consequences, Fabian M. Jaksic, Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 59: 209-221 (1986)
♦ 6Food habits of the Crested Caracara (Caracara plancus) in the Andean Patagonia: the role of breeding constraints, A. Travaini, J. A. Donázar, O. Ceballos & F. Hiraldo, Journal of Arid Environments (2001) 48: 211–219
♦ 7Galictis cuja, Eric Yensen and Teresa Tarifa, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 728, pp. 1–8 (2003)
♦ 8Breeding Biology of a Grey Eagle-Buzzard Population in Patagonia, Fernando Hiraldo, José A. Donázar, Olga Ceballos, Alejandro Travaini, Javier Bustamante and Martín Funes, The Wilson Bulletin, Vol. 107, No. 4 (Dec 1995), pp. 675-685
♦ 9Alvarado O., Sergio, et al. "Diet of the Rufous-legged Owl (Strix rufipes) at the northern limit of its distribution in Chile." The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 119.3 (2007): 475+. Academic OneFile. Web. 15 July 2014.
♦ 10International 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