Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Rodentia > Sciuridae > Ammospermophilus > Ammospermophilus harrisiiAmmospermophilus harrisii (Harris's antelope squirrel; Harris' antelope squirrel)Language: Spanish Harris's antelope squirrel (Ammospermophilus harrisii) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Arizona and New Mexico in the United States, and in Sonora in Mexico. They are adapted to hot weather conditions including a technique called "heat dumping". They have a wide ranging diet, including both vegetation, insects, small rodents and carrion. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 3.48 EDGE Score: 1.5 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 126 grams | | Birth Weight [1] | 4 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore | | Diet - Fruit [2] | 20 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 20 % | | Diet - Plants [2] | 30 % | | Diet - Scavenger [2] | 10 % | | Diet - Seeds [2] | 20 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 100 % | | | Female Maturity [1] | 10 months 19 days | | | Gestation [1] | 30 days | | Litter Size [1] | 7 | | Litters / Year [1] | 1 | | Maximum Longevity [1] | 11 years | | Snout to Vent Length [3] | 6 inches (16 cm) | | Weaning [1] | 51 days |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Alto Golfo de California y Delta del Rio Colorado Biosphere Reserve |
VI |
2320468 |
Sonora, Mexico |
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Beaver Creek Biosphere Reserve |
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275028 |
Arizona, United States |
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Chiricahua National Monument |
V |
1421 |
Arizona, United States |
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Grand Canyon National Park |
II |
1210128 |
Arizona, United States |
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Lake Mead National Recreation Area |
V |
670229 |
Arizona, Nevada, United States |
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Montezuma Castle National Monument |
V |
872 |
Arizona, United States |
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Organ Pipe Cactus Biosphere Reserve |
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327376 |
Arizona, United States |
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Saguaro National Park |
II |
11686 |
Arizona, United States |
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Tonto National Monument |
V |
1123 |
Arizona, United States |
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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 ♦ 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 DatabaseEcoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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