Southern Marsh Harvest Mouse

Reithrodontomys (Reithrodontomys) megalotis (Baird 1857)

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Reithrodontomys megalotis (Southern Marsh Harvest Mouse) is a species of rodents in the family cricetids . It is found in the Nearctic and the Neotropics. It is a solitary, nocturnal invertivore. Individuals are known to live for 18 months and can grow to 11.03 g. Reproduction is dioecious.

URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q737742
Definition: one of the eight terrestrial ecozones constituting the Earth's land surface
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URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q217151
Definition: one of the eight terrestrial ecozones constituting the Earth's land surface
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URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/invertivore
Definition: An organism that feed on invertebrate animals (insects, crustaceans, molluscs, worms, etc.)

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URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/solitary
Definition: Solitary animals are those that spend a majority of their lives without others of their species, with possible exceptions for mating and raising their young. The antonym to a solitary animal is a social animal.
Attribution: https://www.definitions.net/definition/solitary+animal

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URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q309179
Definition: animal behavior characterized by activity during the night and sleeping during the day

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URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148681
Definition: a characteristic of a species, meaning that it has distinct male and female individual organisms.

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EOL has data for 57 attributes, including:

eats
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002470
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Insecta (insects)
ecomorphological guild
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/EcomorphologicalGuild
- Definition: organisms that share certain morphological traits due to adaptation to similar environments and ecological roles
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fossorial and/or ground dwelling only
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/groundDwelling
- Definition: An organism that spends most of its time on the ground or underground.
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first appearance
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/FossilFirst
- Definition: The first appearance of this taxon in the fossil record.
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1.8 million years ago
habitat
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002303
- Definition: x has habitat y if: x is an organism, y is a habitat, and y can sustain and allow the growth of a population of x
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dune
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000170
- Definition: A hill of sand built by eolian processes.
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has pathogen
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002557
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El Moro Canyon orthohantavirus
is eaten by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002471
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Lanius excubitor Linnaeus 1758 (Great Grey Shrike)
number of fossil occurrences
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/fossilOccPBDB
- Definition: The number of fossil occurrences in the Paleobiology Database (https://paleobiodb.org) that are identified as belonging to a particular taxon or any of its subtaxa.
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13
parasitized by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002445
- Definition: automatically added during harvest
- Comment: Auto-added during harvest #37. A human needs to edit this.
- Attribution: Global Biotic Interactions
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Protospirura numidica Seurat 1914
preyed upon by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002458
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Crotalus cerastes Hallowell 1854 (Sidewinder Rattlesnake)
temperature in geographic range
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11.244 0.1°C
trophic level
- URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1053008
- Definition: position of an organism in a food web. May be described verbally with descriptors including primary producer, herbivore or carnivore. If described numerically, 1 indicates a primary producer, 2 a herbivore, and so on up the food web.
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herbivore
- URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q59099
- Definition: animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material
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weaning age
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/WeaningAge
- Definition: Age when primary nutritional dependency on the mother ends and independent foraging begins to make a major contribution to the offspring’s energy requirements.
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20 days

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Southern Marsh Harvest Mouse. View this species on GBIF

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