Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Rodentia > Sciuridae > Ammospermophilus > Ammospermophilus leucurusAmmospermophilus leucurus (white-tailed antelope squirrel)Synonyms: Spermophilus leucurus; Tamias leucurus (homotypic) Language: Spanish The white-tailed antelope squirrel (Ammospermophilus leucurus), is a diurnal species of ground squirrel, scientifically classified in the order Rodentia and family Sciuridae, found in arid regions of the southwestern United States and the Baja California Peninsula of northwestern Mexico. |
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] | 105 grams | | Birth Weight [1] | 3 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] | 1 year | | Male Maturity [1] | 1 year | | | Gestation [1] | 29 days | | Litter Size [1] | 8 | | Litters / Year [1] | 1 | | Maximum Longevity [1] | 11 years | | Snout to Vent Length [3] | 6 inches (16 cm) | | Speed [4] | 10.737 MPH (4.8 m/s) | | Weaning [1] | 66 days |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
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Species |
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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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Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, CA |
III |
184543 |
California, United States |
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Arches National Park |
II |
76539 |
Utah, United States |
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Beaver Creek Biosphere Reserve |
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275028 |
Arizona, United States |
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Canyonlands National Park |
II |
335430 |
Utah, United States |
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Capital Reef National Park |
II |
243722 |
Utah, United States |
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Coachella Valley Preserve Nature Conservancy - Preserve |
Ia |
8106 |
California, United States |
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Death Valley National Park |
II |
762125 |
California, Nevada, United States |
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El Morro National Monument |
V |
960 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Grand Canyon National Park |
II |
1210128 |
Arizona, United States |
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Great Basin National Park |
II |
77367 |
Nevada, United States |
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Hamilton Preserve Nature Conservancy - Preserve |
Ia |
52 |
California, United States |
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Hovenweep National Monument |
V |
770 |
Colorado, Utah, United States |
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Joshua Tree National Park |
II |
305076 |
California, United States |
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Lake Mead National Recreation Area |
V |
670229 |
Arizona, Nevada, United States |
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Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve |
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5901 |
California, United States |
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Petrified Forest National Park |
II |
44522 |
Arizona, United States |
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Philip L. Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center |
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6101 |
California, United States |
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Pipe Spring National Monument |
V |
41 |
Arizona, United States |
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Reserva de la Biosfera El Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve |
VI |
6176727 |
Mexico |
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Sevilleta LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research |
IV |
228335 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument |
V |
3049 |
Arizona, United States |
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Wupatki National Monument |
III |
36098 |
Arizona, United States |
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Zion National Park |
II |
135667 |
Utah, 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 ♦ 4MAXIMAL RUNNING SPEEDS OF BIPEDAL AND QUADRUPEDAL RODENTS, MINOU DJAWDAN and THEODORE GARLAND, JR., J. Mamm., 69(4):765-772, 1988 ♦ 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. ♦ 6Feeding ecology of North American gopher snakes (Pituophis catenifer, Colubridae), JAVIER A. RODRÍGUEZ-ROBLES, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2002, 77, 165183 ♦ 7Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London ♦ 8International 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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