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Urocitellus elegans (Wyoming ground squirrel)

Synonyms: Citellus elegans; Citellus kimballensis; Spermophilus elegans

Wikipedia Abstract

The Wyoming ground squirrel (Urocitellus elegans) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to the Northwestern United States.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
21
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.23
EDGE Score: 2.11
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.00 lbs (453.6 g)
Birth Weight [2]  6 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 [4]  11 months 11 days
Gestation [2]  23 days
Hibernates [5]  Yes
Litter Size [2]  6
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [4]  6 years
Snout to Vent Length [4]  12 inches (31 cm)
Weaning [2]  35 days

Ecoregions

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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Dinosaur National Monument III 203307 Colorado, Utah, United States
Rocky Mountain Biosphere Reserve II 239938 Colorado, United States

Predators

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Consumers

Parasitized by 
Citellinema bifurcatum[6]
Hymenolepis citelli[6]
Hystrichopsylla dippiei dippiei[7]
Rauschtineria citelli[6]

Range Map

External References

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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
♦ 2Spermophilus elegans, David A. Zegers, Mammalian Species No. 214, pp. 1-7 (1984)
♦ 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
♦ 5Myers, 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
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 7International 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