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Original biological and ecological data on the endemic Chinese jumping mouse Eozapus setchuanus (Pousargues, 1896)
Mammalian Biology ( IF 1.6 ) Pub Date : 2009-11-01 , DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2009.04.003 Jean-Pierre Quéré 1 , Francis Raoul , Vladimir Aniskin , Marie-Claude Durette-Desset , Patrick Giraudoux
Mammalian Biology ( IF 1.6 ) Pub Date : 2009-11-01 , DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2009.04.003 Jean-Pierre Quéré 1 , Francis Raoul , Vladimir Aniskin , Marie-Claude Durette-Desset , Patrick Giraudoux
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The Chinese jumping mouse Eozapus setchuanus (Pousargues, 1896) is endemic to the eastern border of the Tibetan plateau in China. It belongs to the Dipodidae family (Zapodinae sub-family) (Wilson and Reeder, 2005), among which the monotypic genus Eozapus is endemic to central China (Wilson and Reeder, 2005). Only about a dozen specimens are known to have been collected and deposited in Museums (Nowak, 1999). They come from elevations of 3,000–4,000 m, and stream bank in mountainous cool forests is the putative preferred habitat described by Nowak (1999). Still now, this species is reported to be rarely collected (Sung, 1998, in Amori and Gippoliti, 2003). Almost all published information concerns small mammal inventories or checklists at the regional scale, and atlases in which the presence of E. setchuanus is reported (Zhang, 1997; Wang, 2003; Qi et al., 2004; Zhang and Hu, 2004; Liu et al., 2005; Qi et al., 2005; Smith and Xie, 2008). To the best of our knowledge, no detailed information exists on its habitat requirements, life history traits, or population status. These data are however needed since the IUCN (World Conservation Union) designates E. setchuanus as vulnerable (category VU A1c), facing a high risk of extinction in the medium-term future because of human induced forest loss and degradation (Baillie, 1996). Its status was assessed in 1996, and its population trend is unknown (Baillie, 1996). Conservation actions towards this species must be grounded on a detailed knowledge about its ecology. We report descriptive data on E. setchuanus which were collected by our research team as part of small mammal community surveys conducted in Central China between 1996 and 2005 (Giraudoux et al., 1998; Giraudoux et al., 2003; Giraudoux et al., 2006; Raoul et al., 2006). Details of trapping procedure are given by Giraudoux et al. (1998) and Raoul et al. (2006). Animals were sampled in July 1996, September 2003, June 2004, and September 2005. We compare these results with information available from the literature. Museum specimens were also used as information source. We provide information about life-history traits and habitat of E. setchuanus and present the first description of its karyotype.
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