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Urocitellus washingtoni (Washington ground squirrel)

Synonyms: Spermophilus washingtoni; Spermophilus washingtoni loringi

Wikipedia Abstract

The Washington ground squirrel (Urocitellus washingtoni) is a squirrel found in the Pacific Northwest, in the states of Washington and Oregon of the Northwestern United States.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
22
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.6
EDGE Score: 2.22
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  207.5 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 [3]  1 year
Hibernates [4]  Yes
Litter Size [5]  8
Litters / Year [3]  1
Maximum Longevity [3]  5 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  11 inches (29 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Palouse grasslands United States Nearctic Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Snake-Columbia shrub steppe United States Nearctic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area V 103172 Washington, United States

Prey / Diet

Bromus moeszii (military grass)[5]
Eriocoma hymenoides (Indian ricegrass)[5]
Plantago patagonica (woolly Indianwheat)[5]
Sisymbrium altissimum (tall tumblemustard)[5]
Sphaeralcea munroana (Munroe globemallow)[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Androlaelaps fahrenholzi[5]
Linognathoides laeviusculus[6]
Meringis shannoni[7]
Oropsylla washingtonensis[7]
Thrassis petiolatus[7]

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 washingtoni, Eric A. Rickart and Eric Yensen, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 371, pp. 1-5 (1991)
♦ 6Jorrit 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.
♦ 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