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Urocitellus brunneus (Idaho ground squirrel; northern Idaho ground squirrel)

Synonyms: Citellus brunneus; Spermophilus brunneus

Wikipedia Abstract

The Idaho ground squirrel (Urocitellus brunneus) is a species of the largest genus of ground squirrels. There are two subspecies, both in Idaho. They are also known as Idaho spotted ground squirrel.
View Wikipedia Record: Urocitellus brunneus

Infraspecies

Urocitellus brunneus brunneus
Urocitellus brunneus endemicus

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Urocitellus brunneus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
46
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.14
EDGE Score: 3.72
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  300 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  20 %
Diet - Plants [2]  40 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  40 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Gestation [3]  25 days
Hibernates [4]  Yes
Litter Size [5]  7
Litters / Year [5]  1
Snout to Vent Length [3]  11 inches (29 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Snake-Columbia shrub steppe United States Nearctic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands

Prey / Diet

Bromus commutatus (hairy brome)[5]
Medicago sativa (yellow alfalfa)[5]
Microseris nigrescens (speckled false dandelion)[5]
Poa bulbosa (bulbous bluegrass)[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Androlaelaps fahrenholzi[5]
Foxella ignota[5]
Ixodes sculptus (Sculptured tick)[5]
Neopsylla inopina[5]
Oropsylla idahoensis[5]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Felisa A. Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons, S. K. Morgan Ernest, Kate E. Jones, Dawn M. Kaufman, Tamar Dayan, Pablo A. Marquet, James H. Brown, and John P. Haskell. 2003. Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84:3403
♦ 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
♦ 4Myers, 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
♦ 5Spermophilus brunneus, Eric Yensen and Paul W. Sherman, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 560, pp. 1-5 (1997)
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