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Sciurus arizonensis (Arizona gray squirrel)

Synonyms: Sciurus arizonensis arizonensis; Sciurus arizonensis catalinae; Sciurus arizonensis huachuca
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The Arizona gray squirrel (Sciurus arizonensis) is a tree squirrel, in the genus Sciurus, endemic to the canyons and valleys surrounded by deciduous and mixed forests in eastern Arizona and northern Mexico. It is threatened by habitat loss. The only other large squirrel that is within its range is Abert's squirrel, which has ear tufts and lives in pine forests. Although they act and look like other gray squirrels, the Arizona gray squirrel is actually more closely related to the fox squirrel.
View Wikipedia Record: Sciurus arizonensis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
0
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Not determined do to incomplete vulnerability data.
ED Score: 2.5
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.426 lbs (647 g)
Diet [2]  Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  20 %
Diet - Plants [2]  30 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  50 %
Forages - Arboreal [2]  100 %
Litter Size [1]  3
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [3]  12 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  10 inches (26 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Arizona Mountains forests United States Nearctic Temperate Coniferous Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Beaver Creek Biosphere Reserve 275028 Arizona, United States  
Coronado National Monument National Memorial III 4360 Arizona, United States
Montezuma Castle National Monument V 872 Arizona, United States
Saguaro National Park II 11686 Arizona, United States

Prey / Diet

Celtis laevigata var. brevipes (netleaf hackberry)[1]
Juglans major (Arizona walnut)[1]
Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa pine)[1]
Pseudotsuga menziesii (Douglas fir)[1]
Quercus gambelii (Shin Oak)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Accipiter gentilis (Northern Goshawk)[1]
Buteo jamaicensis (Red-tailed Hawk)[1]
Lynx rufus (Bobcat)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Opisodasys robustus robustus[4]
Orchopeas fulleri[4]
Orchopeas howardi howardi[4]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Sciurus arizonensis, Troy L. Best and Suzanne Riedel, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 496, pp. 1-5 (1995)
♦ 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
♦ 4International 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