Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Rodentia > Cricetidae > Reithrodontomys > Reithrodontomys spectabilisReithrodontomys spectabilis (Cozumel harvest mouse)The Cozumel harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys spectabilis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is endemic to the Mexican island of Cozumel off the Yucatán Peninsula. It is nocturnal and semiareboreal, and lives in dense secondary forest and forest edge habitats. Its population is small, fluctuating and patchily distributed. The species is threatened by predation from feral cats and dogs and introduced boa constrictors, by competition with introduced nonnative rats and mice, and by habitat disturbances caused by hurricanes and floods which periodically strike the island. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 8.18 EDGE Score: 4.99 |
Adult Weight [1] | 20 grams |  | Diet [2] | Granivore, Herbivore | Diet - Plants [2] | 50 % | Diet - Seeds [2] | 50 % | Forages - Ground [2] | 100 % |  | Nocturnal [2] | Yes | Snout to Vent Length [3] | 4.724 inches (12 cm) |
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Climate |
Land Use |
Yucatán moist forests |
Mexico, Guatemala, Belize |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Climate |
Land Use |
Cozumel |
Mexico |
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Location |
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Species |
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Mesoamerica |
Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama |
Yes |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Reithrodontomys spectabilis, J. Knox Jones, Jr., Mammalian Species No. 193 (1982) ♦ 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 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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