MammalBase - Accepted taxon: Gerbillus nanus

Accepted taxon: Gerbillus nanus
Taxon:	Gerbillus nanus
Rank:	Species
Higher Classification:	RODENTIA \| MYOMORPHA \| Muroidea \| Muridae \| Gerbillinae \| Gerbillus \| Hendecapleura
Reference:	Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), JHU Press, 2005.

Table 1. List of Diet Items for Gerbillus nanus.
TSN Complete name	Part	Ratio ^a.	Reference(s)
There are no Diet Items available.

^a. Standardized values. See details for the calculations in Lintulaakso, K., Tatti, N. and Žliobaitė, I., 2022. Quantifying mammalian diets. Mammalian Biology, pp.1-15. [DOI]

Table 2. List of Standard Traits for Gerbillus nanus.
Trait	Selected Value	All Value(s)	Reference(s)
Dietary category: Eisenberg 1981	Frugivore-Granivore	Frugivore-Granivore	– Douglas A. Kelt, James H. Brown, Edward J. Heske, Pablo A. Marquet, Stephen R. Morton, Julian R. W. Reid, Kontantin A. rogovin, Georgy Shenbrot, 1996, 'Community Structure of Desert Small Mammals: Comparisons Across Four Continents', Ecology, vol. 77, no. 3, p. 746
Dietary category: Miljutin 2009	Frugivore	Frugivore	– Douglas A. Kelt, James H. Brown, Edward J. Heske, Pablo A. Marquet, Stephen R. Morton, Julian R. W. Reid, Kontantin A. rogovin, Georgy Shenbrot, 1996, 'Community Structure of Desert Small Mammals: Comparisons Across Four Continents', Ecology, vol. 77, no. 3, p. 746

Table 3. List of Standard Measurements for Gerbillus nanus.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	7	7	-	-	-	27.5	-	-	Nelson, A…
Body Mass (BM)	Wadi As Sulai, Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	g	2	2	-	-	-	14.5	-	-	Abi-Said,…
Ear Length (EL)	Wadi As Sulai, Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	mm	2	2	-	-	-	9.01	-	-	Abi-Said,…
Head-Body Length (HBL)	Wadi As Sulai, Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	mm	2	2	-	-	-	77.12	-	-	Abi-Said,…
Hind Foot Length (HFL)	Wadi As Sulai, Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	mm	2	2	-	-	-	23.54	-	-	Abi-Said,…
Tail Length (TL)	Wadi As Sulai, Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	mm	2	2	-	-	-	103.75	-	-	Abi-Said,…
Zygomatic Breath	Wadi As Sulai, Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	mm	2	2	-	-	-	11.57	-	-	Abi-Said,…

Table 4. List of other Measurements ^b. for Gerbillus nanus.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
BB: Brain case breadth	Wadi As Sulai, Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	mm	2	2	-	-	-	13	-	-	Abi-Said,…
CBL	Wadi As Sulai, Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	mm	2	2	-	-	-	26	-	-	Abi-Said,…
GtL: Greatest length of skull	Wadi As Sulai, Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	mm	2	2	-	-	-	29	-	-	Abi-Said,…
HL: Head length	Wadi As Sulai, Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	mm	2	2	-	-	-	28	-	-	Abi-Said,…
HW: Head width	Wadi As Sulai, Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	mm	2	2	-	-	-	14	-	-	Abi-Said,…
IC: Interorbital constriction	Wadi As Sulai, Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	mm	2	2	-	-	-	5	-	-	Abi-Said,…
M: Mandible length (incisor included)	Wadi As Sulai, Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	mm	2	2	-	-	-	12	-	-	Abi-Said,…
MDC: Mandibular cheekteeth	Wadi As Sulai, Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	mm	2	2	-	-	-	4	-	-	Abi-Said,…
MXC: Maxillary cheekteeth	Wadi As Sulai, Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	mm	2	2	-	-	-	4	-	-	Abi-Said,…

^b. other Measurements. Source Measurements which are not listed on or mapped with the Standard Traits..

Table 5. List of Data Sources for Gerbillus nanus.
Taxon	Reference	Match	Status
Gerbillus nanus	Kelt,D. A., 1996, Community structure of desert small mammals: comparisons across four continents, Ecology	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Gerbilus nanus	Abi-Said, M.R., Al-Zein, M.S. and Lebanon, B., 2022. Rodents Diversity in Wadi As Sulai, Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Jordan Journal of Natural History, 9(1), pp.83-88.	51: Name variant or misspelling of the taxon	Verified - Accepted
Gerbillus nanus	Herberstein, M.E., McLean, D.J., Lowe, E., Wolff, J.O., Khan, M.K., Smith, K., Allen, A.P., Bulbert, M., Buzatto, B.A., Eldridge, M.D. and Falster, D., 2022. AnimalTraits-a curated animal trait database for body mass, metabolic rate and brain size. Scientific Data, 9(1), p.265.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Gerbillus nanus	Nelson, A., Engelman, R.K. and Croft, D.A., 2023. How to weigh a fossil mammal? South American notoungulates as a case study for estimating body mass in extinct clades. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 30(3), pp.773-809.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted

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