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Glaucomys sabrinus (northern flying squirrel)

Synonyms: Pteromys canadensis; Sciurus hudsonius; Sciurus sabrinus
Language: French

Wikipedia Abstract

The Northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus) is one of two species of the genus Glaucomys, the only flying squirrels found in North America (the other is the somewhat smaller southern flying squirrel, G. volans). They are found in coniferous and mixed coniferous forests across much of Canada, from Alaska to Nova Scotia, and south to the mountains of North Carolina and west to California in the United States. They are light brown with pale underparts and grow to a length of 25 to 37 cm (10 to 15 in). They are good gliders but clumsy walkers on the ground. They feed on a variety of plant material as well as tree sap, fungi, insects, carrion, bird eggs and nestlings. They mostly breed once a year in a cavity lined with lichen or other soft material. Except when they have young, they chan
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Infraspecies

Glaucomys sabrinus alpinus (Richardson flying squirrel)
Glaucomys sabrinus bangsi (Bangs flying squirrel)
Glaucomys sabrinus californicus (San Bernardino flying squirrel)
Glaucomys sabrinus canescens
Glaucomys sabrinus coloratus (Carolina northern flying squirrel)
Glaucomys sabrinus columbiensis (Okanagan flying squirrel)
Glaucomys sabrinus flaviventris (yellow-bellied flying squirrel)
Glaucomys sabrinus fuliginosus (Cascade flying squirrel)
Glaucomys sabrinus fuscus (Virginia northern flying squirrel)
Glaucomys sabrinus goodwini
Glaucomys sabrinus gouldi
Glaucomys sabrinus griseifrons (Prince of Wales Island flying squirrel)
Glaucomys sabrinus klamathensis (Klamath flying squirrel)
Glaucomys sabrinus lascivus (Sierra flying squirrel)
Glaucomys sabrinus latipes (broad-footed flying squirrel)
Glaucomys sabrinus lucifugus
Glaucomys sabrinus macrotis (Mearns flying squirrel)
Glaucomys sabrinus makkovikensis (Laborador flying squirrel)
Glaucomys sabrinus murinauralis
Glaucomys sabrinus oregonensis (Bachman flying squirrel)
Glaucomys sabrinus reductus (Atnarko flying squirrel)
Glaucomys sabrinus sabrinus (northern flying squirrel)
Glaucomys sabrinus stephensi (California coast flying squirrel)
Glaucomys sabrinus yukonensis (Yukon flying squirrel) (Attributes)
Glaucomys sabrinus zaphaeus (Alaska coast flying squirrel)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
21
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.26
EDGE Score: 2.11
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  149 grams
Birth Weight [1]  6 grams
Diet [2]  Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  30 %
Diet - Plants [2]  30 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  40 %
Forages - Arboreal [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  7 months
Gestation [1]  40 days
Litter Size [1]  3
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  14 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [4]  11 inches (27 cm)
Weaning [1]  68 days
Habitat Substrate [3]  Arboreal

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Biodiversity Hotspots

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

Prey / Diet

Certhia americana (Brown Creeper)[5]
Cladonia rangiferina (greygreen reindeer lichen)[6]
Larix laricina (tamarack)[6]
Nephroma arcticum (arctic kidney lichen)[6]
Panaeolus cinctulus (Banded Mottlegill)[6]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

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
♦ 3Myers, 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
♦ 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.
♦ 6Making The Forest And Tundra Wildlife Connection
♦ 7Prey Abundance, Space Use, Demography, and Foraging Habitat of Northern Goshawks in Western Washington, Thomas David Bloxton, Jr., University of Washington 2002
♦ 8Glaucomys sabrinus, Nancy Wells-Gosling and Lawrence R. Heaney, Mammalian Species No. 229, pp. 1-8 (1984)
♦ 9General Biology of Major Prey Species of the California Spotted Owl, Daniel F. Williams, Jared Verner, Howard F. Sakai, and Jeffrey R. Waters, USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-133. 1992. Chapter 10, pp. 207-221
♦ 10International Flea Database
♦ 11Gibson, 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