Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Soricomorpha > Talpidae > Condylura > Condylura cristataCondylura cristata (Star-nosed Mole)Synonyms: Sorex cristatus Language: French The star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata) is a small mole found in wet low areas of eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, with records extending along the Atlantic coast as far as extreme southeastern Georgia. It is the only member of the tribe Condylurini and the genus Condylura. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 40.77 EDGE Score: 3.73 |
| Gestation [2] | 40 days | | Litter Size [2] | 4 | | Litters / Year [2] | 1 | | Maximum Longevity [2] | 3 years | | Nocturnal [1] | Yes | | Snout to Vent Length [4] | 4.724 inches (12 cm) | | Water Biome [1] | Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams | | Weaning [2] | 24 days |  | | Adult Weight [2] | 55 grams | | Birth Weight [2] | 1.5 grams | | | Diet [3] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore | | Diet - Fish [3] | 20 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [3] | 80 % | | Forages - Ground [3] | 100 % | | | Female Maturity [2] | 10 months 4 days | | Male Maturity [2] | 10 months 4 days |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
Use |
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Allegheny Highlands forests |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Atlantic coastal pine barrens |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Canadian Aspen forests and parklands |
Canada |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Central Canadian Shield forests |
Canada |
Nearctic |
Boreal Forests/Taiga |
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Eastern Canadian forests |
Canada |
Nearctic |
Boreal Forests/Taiga |
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Eastern Canadian Shield taiga |
Canada |
Nearctic |
Boreal Forests/Taiga |
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Eastern forest-boreal transition |
Canada, United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests |
Canada, United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Gulf of St. Lawrence lowland forests |
Canada |
Nearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Middle Atlantic coastal forests |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Midwestern Canadian Shield forests |
Canada |
Nearctic |
Boreal Forests/Taiga |
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New England-Acadian forests |
Canada, United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Northeastern coastal forests |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Northern mixed grasslands |
Canada, United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Northern tall grasslands |
Canada, United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Southeastern conifer forests |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Southeastern mixed forests |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Southern Great Lakes forests |
Canada, United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Southern Hudson Bay taiga |
Canada |
Nearctic |
Boreal Forests/Taiga |
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Upper Midwest forest-savanna transition |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Western Great Lakes forests |
Canada, United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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| Name |
IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Acadia National Park |
II |
35996 |
Maine, United States |
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Algonquin Provincial Park |
IV |
1868802 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Antietam National Battlefield |
III |
3263 |
Maryland, United States |
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Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge |
VI |
19192 |
Maryland, United States |
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Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge |
VI |
16363 |
Delaware, United States |
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Bruce Peninsula National Park |
II |
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Ontario, Canada |
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Calvin College Ecosystem Preserve |
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90 |
Michigan, United States |
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Cape Breton Highlands National Park |
II |
234333 |
Nova Scotia, Canada |
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Cape Cod National Seashore |
II |
21724 |
Massachusetts, United States |
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Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge |
IV |
8964 |
South Carolina, United States |
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Carolinian-South Atlantic Biosphere Reserve |
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310228 |
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, United States |
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Catoctin Mountain Park National Park |
II |
5994 |
Maryland, United States |
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Cedar Creek LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research |
IV |
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Minnesota, United States |
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Champlain-Adirondack Biosphere Reserve |
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9859505 |
New York, Vermont, United States |
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Chippewa Nature Center |
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Michigan, United States |
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Colonial National Historic Park National Historical Park |
V |
9316 |
Virginia, United States |
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Congaree Swamp National Park |
II |
6095 |
South Carolina, United States |
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Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research |
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North Carolina, United States |
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Cuyahoga Valley National Park |
II |
24907 |
Ohio, United States |
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Edwin S. George Reserve |
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1297 |
Michigan, United States |
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Fathom Five National Marine Park |
II |
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Ontario, Canada |
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Forillon National Park |
II |
61010 |
Quebec, Canada |
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Fundy National Park |
II |
52716 |
New Brunswick, Canada |
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Georgian Bay Islands National Park |
II |
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Ontario, Canada |
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park |
II |
515454 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge |
VI |
3161 |
New Jersey, United States |
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Kejimkujik National Park |
II |
94203 |
Nova Scotia, Canada |
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Kouchibouguac National Park |
II |
59161 |
New Brunswick, Canada |
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La Mauricie National Park |
II |
131706 |
Quebec, Canada |
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Lake Superior Provincial Park |
IV |
351011 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Long Point Biosphere Reserve |
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100325 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Morristown National Historical Park |
VI |
1677 |
New Jersey, United States |
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New Jersey Pinelands Biosphere Reserve |
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New Jersey, United States |
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Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Reserve |
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470167 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge |
IV |
38256 |
Florida, United States |
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Pukaskwa National Park |
II |
459860 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Rondeau Provincial Park |
II |
5035 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Saint Lawrence Islands National Park |
II |
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Ontario, Canada |
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Saratoga National Historical Park |
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New York, United States |
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Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore |
II |
62563 |
Michigan, United States |
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South Atlantic Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve |
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20317 |
South Carolina, United States |
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Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve |
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37548505 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve |
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3821173 |
Canada |
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Upper Miss. River Nat'l Wildlife Refuge National Wildlife Refuge |
VI |
25823 |
Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, United States |
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Valley Forge National Historical Park |
VI |
3509 |
Pennsylvania, United States |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 6International Flea DatabaseEcoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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