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Marmota olympus (Olympic marmot)

Synonyms: Arctomys olympus (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Olympic marmot (Marmota olympus) is a rodent in the squirrel family Sciuridae; it occurs only in the U.S. state of Washington, on the middle elevations of the Olympic Peninsula. The closest relatives of this species are the hoary marmot and the Vancouver Island marmot. In 2009, it was declared the official endemic mammal of Washington.
View Wikipedia Record: Marmota olympus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
0
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
6
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.2
EDGE Score: 1.16
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  17.858 lbs (8.10 kg)
Diet [2]  Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  30 %
Diet - Plants [2]  40 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  30 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  3 years
Male Maturity [1]  3 years
Gestation [1]  28 days
Hibernates [3]  Yes
Litter Size [1]  4
Litters / Year [4]  1
Snout to Vent Length [4]  24 inches (60 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Central Pacific coastal forests Canada, United States Nearctic Temperate Coniferous Forests  

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Olympic Biosphere Reserve II 922805 Washington, United States

Emblem of

Washington

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Canis latrans (Coyote)[1]
Puma concolor (Cougar)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Oropsylla eatoni[5]
Thrassis spenceri spenceri[5]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Marmota olympus, Andrew J. Edelman, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 736, pp. 1–5 (2003)
♦ 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
♦ 3Myers, 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
♦ 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
♦ 5International Flea Database
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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