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Urocitellus armatus (Uinta ground squirrel)

Synonyms: Spermophilus armatus

Wikipedia Abstract

The Uinta ground squirrel (Urocitellus armatus), commonly called a Potgut in northern Utah, is a species of rodent native to the western United States.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
11
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.3
EDGE Score: 1.46
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  300 grams
Birth Weight [2]  60 grams
Male Weight [2]  300 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  20 %
Diet - Plants [3]  40 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  40 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [2]  1 year
Male Maturity [2]  2 years
Gestation [1]  24 days
Litter Size [1]  6
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  7 years
Snout to Vent Length [2]  12 inches (31 cm)
Weaning [1]  22 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Grand Teton National Park II 231724 Wyoming, United States
Yellowstone Biosphere Reserve II 2196863 Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, United States

Prey / Diet

Poa pratensis (Kentucky bluegrass)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Aquila chrysaetos (Golden Eagle)[4]
Canis latrans (Coyote)[1]
Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Bald Eagle)[4]
Taxidea taxus (American Badger)[1]
Ursus arctos (Grizzly Bear)[4]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Spermophilus armatus, Bruce D. Eshelman and Cara S. Sonnemann, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 637, pp. 1–6 (2000)
♦ 2Nathan 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
♦ 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
♦ 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 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