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Callospermophilus lateralis (golden-mantled ground squirrel)

Synonyms: Callospermophilus chrysodeirus; Citellus lateralis; Sciurus lateralis (homotypic); Spermophilus chrysodeirus; Spermophilus lateralis

Wikipedia Abstract

The golden-mantled ground squirrel (Callospermophilus lateralis) is a ground squirrel found in mountainous areas of western North America. It is abundant throughout its range and is equally at home in a wide variety of forest habitats, as well as rocky meadows, and even sagebrush flats.
View Wikipedia Record: Callospermophilus lateralis

Infraspecies

Callospermophilus lateralis arizonensis
Callospermophilus lateralis bernardinus
Callospermophilus lateralis castanurus
Callospermophilus lateralis certus
Callospermophilus lateralis chrysodeirus
Callospermophilus lateralis cinerascens
Callospermophilus lateralis connectens
Callospermophilus lateralis lateralis
Callospermophilus lateralis mitratus
Callospermophilus lateralis tescorum
Callospermophilus lateralis trepidus
Callospermophilus lateralis trinitatus
Callospermophilus lateralis wortmani

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
19
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.59
EDGE Score: 2.03
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  158 grams
Birth Weight [1]  6 grams
Male Weight [4]  188 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  20 %
Diet - Plants [2]  40 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  40 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  1 year 9 months
Gestation [1]  30 days
Hibernates [3]  Yes
Litter Size [1]  5
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  10 years
Snout to Vent Length [4]  12 inches (31 cm)
Weaning [1]  37 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No

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External References

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Citations

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
♦ 3Spermophilus lateralis, Molly A. Bartels and Doug P. Thompson, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 440, pp. 1-8 (1993)
♦ 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
♦ 5Jorrit 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.
♦ 6International Flea Database
♦ 7Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
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