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Sigmodon mascotensis (Jaliscan cotton rat)

Synonyms: Sigmodon hispidus atratus; Sigmodon hispidus inexoratus; Sigmodon hispidus ischyrus; Sigmodon hispidus obvelatus; Sigmodon hispidus tonalensis

Wikipedia Abstract

The Jaliscan cotton rat (Sigmodon mascotensis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found only in Mexico.
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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: 3.88
EDGE Score: 1.58
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  120 grams
Birth Weight [2]  7 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  50 %
Diet - Plants [3]  50 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [2]  40 days
Male Maturity [2]  40 days
Gestation [2]  27 days
Litter Size [2]  5
Litters / Year [2]  2
Maximum Longevity [2]  5 years
Snout to Vent Length [2]  8 inches (20 cm)

Ecoregions

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

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
♦ 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
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