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Ammospermophilus interpres (Texas antelope squirrel)

Synonyms: Tamias interpres (homotypic)
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The Texas antelope squirrel (Ammospermophilus interpres) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae.It is found in Mexico and in both Texas and New Mexico within the United States.
View Wikipedia Record: Ammospermophilus interpres

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
11
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.48
EDGE Score: 1.5
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  110 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 %
Litter Size [3]  10
Litters / Year [3]  1
Maximum Longevity [3]  2 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  6 inches (16 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No

Prey / Diet

Dermatophyllum secundiflorum (mescalbean)[1]
Juglans major (Arizona walnut)[1]
Opuntia engelmannii (cactus apple)[1]
Ungnadia speciosa (Mexican buckeye)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Aquila chrysaetos (Golden Eagle)[4]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Ammospermophilus interpres, Troy L. Best, Cynthia L. Lewis, Katharine Caesar, and Amy S. Titus, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 365, pp. 1-6 (1990)
♦ 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
♦ 4Jorrit 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.
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