Coastal Vesper Mouse
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| Zeballos , Palma , Marquet , Ceballos , 2014 |
The coastal vesper mouse ( Calomys chinchilico ) is a little researched rodent from the genus of Vesper mice ( Calomys ) in the family of the burrowers (Cricetidae). It was discovered in 1999 by Kateryn Pino at Cerro Lloque in the Andean region of Arequipa in southwestern Peru at an altitude of 900 m and described scientifically in 2014 by Horacio Zeballos and his colleagues.
features
The head-torso length is 61.9 to 89 mm, the tail length 60 to 75 mm, the ear length 14 to 19.6 mm, the rear foot length 16.5 to 19.6 mm and the weight 11 to 19 g. The dark olive to dark olive back fur is interspersed with black hair. A fuzzy yellowish-brown to yellowish-green longitudinal stripe runs over the fur. The sides of the head, the flanks of the body and the belly are whitish to pale smoke gray. The base hair is dark gray. The ears are olive-yellow-brown. The hind feet and the lower part of the tail are pale olive-yellow-brown. The two-tone tail is yellowish brown on the top and white on the underside.
Habitat and way of life
The coastal vesper dwells in open vegetation and scrubland at altitudes of 280 to 980 m, which is dominated by Grindelia glutinosa and Mimosa albida . It is endemic to the Loma Formation , a plant community that is dependent on the rising fog and is therefore also referred to as a "fog oasis". The diet consists of insects and grains. No further information is known about the way of life.
status
The coastal vesper is currently not on the IUCN Red List. Although it is still common in their region, human activities, especially the prospectors, pose a threat.
literature
- Ulyses Pardiñas, Dennisse Ruelas, Jorge Brito, Lisa Bradley, Robert Bradley, Nicté Ordóñez Garza, Boris Kryštufek, Joseph Cook, Erika Cuéllar Soto, Jorge Salazar-Bravo, Gregory Shenbrot, Elisandra Chiquito, Alexandre Percequillo, Joyce Prado, Rudolf Haslauer Patton, Livia León-Paniagua: Family Cricetidae (True Hamsters, Voles, Lemmings and New World Rats and Mice) In: Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Volume 7: Rodents II, Lynx Edicions, Barcelona 2017, ISBN 978-84-16728-04-6 , pp. 513-514
Individual evidence
- ↑ Horacio Zeballos, R. Eduardo Palma, Pablo A. Marquet, Gerardo Ceballos : Phylogenetic relationships of Calomys sorellus complex (Rodentia: Cricetidae), with the description of two new species. Revista Mexicana de Mastozoología Nueva época, Vol. 4, Núm. 1, 2014