Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Soricomorpha > Talpidae > Parascalops > Parascalops breweriParascalops breweri (Hairy-tailed Mole; Brewer's mole)Synonyms: Scalopus breweri (homotypic) Language: French The hairy-tailed mole (Parascalops breweri), also known as Brewer's mole, is a medium-sized North American mole. It is the only member of the genus Parascalops. It is found in forested and open areas with dry loose soils in eastern Canada and the northeastern United States. This mole spends most of its time underground, foraging in shallow burrows for insects and their larvae and earthworms. It emerges at night to feed. It is active year round. Predators include owls, foxes and large snakes. The species epithet breweri refers to Thomas Mayo Brewer, an American naturalist. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 32.45 EDGE Score: 3.51 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 63 grams | | Birth Weight [1] | 10 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates) | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 100 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 100 % | | | Female Maturity [1] | 10 months | | Male Maturity [1] | 10 months | | | Gestation [1] | 35 days | | Litter Size [1] | 4 | | Litters / Year [1] | 1 | | Maximum Longevity [3] | 5 years | | Snout to Vent Length [3] | 5 inches (13 cm) | | Weaning [1] | 30 days |
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Acadia National Park |
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35996 |
Maine, United States |
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Algonquin Provincial Park |
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1868802 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Antietam National Battlefield |
III |
3263 |
Maryland, United States |
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Champlain-Adirondack Biosphere Reserve |
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9859505 |
New York, Vermont, 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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Cumberland Gap National Hist. Park National Historical Park |
V |
24282 |
Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, United States |
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Cuyahoga Valley National Park |
II |
24907 |
Ohio, United States |
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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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La Mauricie National Park |
II |
131706 |
Quebec, Canada |
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Long Point Biosphere Reserve |
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100325 |
Ontario, Canada |
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New River Gorge National River National River and Wild and Scenic Riverway |
V |
55591 |
West Virginia, United States |
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Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Reserve |
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470167 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Saint Lawrence Islands National Park |
II |
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Ontario, Canada |
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Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site |
III |
139 |
New Hampshire, United States |
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Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve |
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37548505 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1de 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 ♦ 2Hamish 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 ♦ 3Nathan 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 ♦ 4Jorrit 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. ♦ 5International 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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