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<emphasis id="79F5EACFFF9ABA69FF3DFF29FE6FEADA" bold="true" box="[151,386,222,248]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Eliomys melanurus</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="79F5EACFFF9ABA69FF3DFEF6FEBAEB38" bold="true" box="[151,343,257,282]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Common name:</emphasis>
Asian garden dormouse.
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<emphasis id="79F5EACFFF9ABA69FF3DFEBEFEFEEB40" bold="true" box="[151,275,329,354]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Diagnosis:</emphasis>
A squirrel-like mouse with thick fur, large ears, and bushy tail. Dorsal side is gray and ventral side is white with a distinct line of demarcation (
<figureCitation id="D3BA2A58FF9ABA69FD3FFE9AFD10EBA4" box="[661,765,365,390]" captionStart="FIGURE 8" captionStartId="10.[151,250,1437,1459]" captionTargetBox="[264,1323,622,1416]" captionTargetId="figure@10.[264,1323,622,1416]" captionTargetPageId="10" captionText="FIGURE 8. The Asian garden dormouse, Eliomys melanurusfrom Wādī Ramm (photo by David Modry)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/1202795/files/figure.png" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Figure 8</figureCitation>
). Eyes surrounded by black hair, mask-like black stripe extending from eyes backwards to the base of ears. Fore feet have four digits, hind feet five, the soles are naked. Tail terminates with bushy black hair, covering almost half of the tail length (
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). Skull with very large tympanic bullae and long rostrum. Zygomatic arches very delicate. Slender mandible with large perforations of the angular processes, having a distinctive secondary projection on the lower margin. Crowns of cheekteeth distinctively concave (
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).
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<emphasis id="79F5EACFFF9ABA69FF3DFA6AFEFFEF90" bold="true" box="[151,274,1437,1459]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">FIGURE 8.</emphasis>
The Asian garden dormouse,
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from Wādī Ramm (photo by David Modry).
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<emphasis id="79F5EACFFF9ABA69FF6DFA2CFED7EFD6" bold="true" box="[199,314,1499,1524]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Localities</emphasis>
:
<emphasis id="79F5EACFFF9ABA69FEE1FA2CFDF1EFD6" bold="true" box="[331,540,1499,1524]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Previous records.</emphasis>
Jîza, Umm ar Rasas (Tristram, 1866); Moab and Edom (Bodenheimer, 1958); Azraq ed Duruz (Atallah, 1978); Wādī Rajil near Jāwá (Searight, 1987); Azraq ed Duruz, Dhabaah (
<bibRefCitation id="2F104B2CFF9ABA69FAA6FA08FF3EEC19" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" refId="ref31125" refString="Amr, Z. S. &amp; Disi, A. M. (1988) Jordanian Mammals Acquired by the Jordan University Natural History Museum. Publication of the University of Jordan, Amman, 32 pp." type="book">Amr &amp; Disi, 1988</bibRefCitation>
); Al Wisad (
<bibRefCitation id="2F104B2CFF9ABA69FECEF9D4FD7BEC1E" box="[356,662,1571,1596]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" refId="ref30224" refString="Abu Baker, M. &amp; Amr, Z. (2003 b) Rodent diversity in the Northeastern Desert of Jordan, with special reference on the ecology of Gerbillus cheesmani. (Mammalia: Rodentia). Casopis Narodniho Muzea, Rada prirodovedna, 172 (1 - 4), 141 - 152." type="journal article">Abu Baker &amp; Amr, 2003b</bibRefCitation>
); Wādī Ramm (Abu Baker &amp; Amr, 2004); Ḑānā Biosphere Reserve (Yousef &amp;
<bibRefCitation id="2F104B2CFF9ABA69FEBEF9B0FE7EEC7D" box="[276,403,1606,1631]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" refId="ref30412" refString="Abu Baker, M., Qarqaz, M. &amp; Amr, Z. (2005) Small mammal remains recovered from pellets of the Barn Owl (Tyto alba) at Shawmari Wildlife Reserve, eastern Jordan. Casopis Narodniho Muzea, Rada prirodovedna, 174 (1 - 4), 12 7 - 129." type="journal article">Amr, 2005</bibRefCitation>
).
<emphasis id="79F5EACFFF9ABA69FE0CF9B1FC8FEC7D" bold="true" box="[422,866,1606,1631]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Materials extracted from owl pellets.</emphasis>
Ex.
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<emphasis id="79F5EACFFF9ABA69FC32F9BFFBECEC7D" box="[920,1025,1606,1631]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Tyto alba</emphasis>
, (Wādī Al Barra) Ḑānā
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(Obuch per. com.); Ex.
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<emphasis id="79F5EACFFF9ABA69FEB9F99CFE60ECA6" box="[275,397,1643,1668]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Bubo bubo</emphasis>
, Marj Al Hammam
</taxonomicName>
(Obuch per. com.); Ex.
<taxonomicName id="8C814D5EFF9ABA69FCD2F99CFBD8ECA1" authority="bubo, Qasr" authorityName="bubo, Azraq Wetland Reserve (Shehab &amp; Ciach" authorityYear="2008" box="[888,1077,1643,1668]" class="Aves" family="Strigidae" genus="Bubo" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Strigiformes" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="bubo">
<emphasis id="79F5EACFFF9ABA69FCD2F99CFC1FECA6" box="[888,1010,1643,1668]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Bubo bubo</emphasis>
, Qaşr
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Burqu' (Obuch per. com.).
<emphasis id="79F5EACFFF9ABA69FACDF99CFF1AEC85" bold="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">New records.</emphasis>
Dibbīn Forest Reserve, ar Ruwayshid (
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).
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<emphasis id="79F5EACFFF9ABA69FF6DF944FEC1ECEE" bold="true" box="[199,300,1715,1740]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Habitat:</emphasis>
It occurs in a wide range of habitats from the temperate forests to densely vegetated habitats and rocky deserts. As the distribution map shows, it was collected among black lava rocky habitats in the
<collectingRegion id="8945F83FFF9ABA69FAE2F92FFA71ECCD" box="[1352,1436,1752,1775]" country="American Samoa" name="Eastern" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Eastern</collectingRegion>
Desert, rocky juniper forest in Ḑānā Biosphere Reserve, and sand stone deserts of
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is arboreal and comes out at night to feed
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on
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<emphasis id="79F5EACFFF9ABA69FE49F8E9FD28ED15" box="[483,709,1822,1847]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Haloxylon persicum</emphasis>
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shrubs, oak, wild figs, and juniper trees.
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<emphasis id="79F5EACFFF9ABA69FF6DF8B4FECCED7E" bold="true" box="[199,289,1859,1884]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Biology</emphasis>
: Females give birth to 29 young, and become fully mature by one year (Kingdon, 1990). The Asian garden dormouse lives along with other desert rodents, such as
<taxonomicName id="8C814D5EFF9ABA69FCC6F891FBAFED5D" baseAuthorityName="Wagner" baseAuthorityYear="1842" box="[876,1090,1894,1919]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Gerbillus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="dasyurus">
<emphasis id="79F5EACFFF9ABA69FCC6F891FBAFED5D" box="[876,1090,1894,1919]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Gerbillus dasyurus</emphasis>
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and
<emphasis id="79F5EACFFF9ABA69FBD6F890FADDED5C" box="[1148,1328,1895,1918]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Acomysrussatus</emphasis>
(Atallah, 1978). It feeds on insects, snails and centipedes (Atallah, 1978; Nader
<emphasis id="79F5EACFFF9ABA69FC07F87BFC33ED86" box="[941,990,1931,1956]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">et al</emphasis>
., 1983).
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<emphasis id="79F5EACFFF9ABA69FF6DF859FED9EDE5" bold="true" box="[199,308,1966,1991]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Remarks</emphasis>
: The southwest Asian garden dormouse has a remarkable distribution pattern, despite being originally an arboreal species. The species became adapted to a non-arboreal life style 1.2 million years ago (Bates, 1996). Earlier geological periods and deforestation events have created relict populations of this species within the rocky habitats of Wādī Ramm and the
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Desert. The karyotype for specimens collected from the Negev Desert was found to be 2n=48, FN=86, with 14 metacentric or submetacentic, and 6 subtelocentric pairs of chromosomes (Filippucci
<emphasis id="79F5EACFFF9BBA68FE11FEF2FE01EB3F" box="[443,492,260,285]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">et al</emphasis>
., 1988).
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