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Cynomys gunnisoni (Gunnison's prairie dog)

Synonyms: Spermophilus gunnisoni (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Gunnison's prairie dog (Cynomys gunnisoni) is one of five species of the prairie dog. This species belongs to the squirrel family of rodents, and are predominantly related to the North American and Eurasian ground squirrels. Gunnison’s prairie dogs are primarily distributed in the Four Corners region of the United States.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
14
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.5
EDGE Score: 1.7
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.984 lbs (900 g)
Diet [2]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  1 year
Gestation [1]  30 days
Litter Size [1]  4
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [3]  6 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  12 inches (30 cm)
Weaning [1]  46 days

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Arizona Mountains forests United States Nearctic Temperate Coniferous Forests
Colorado Plateau shrublands United States Nearctic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Colorado Rockies forests United States Nearctic Temperate Coniferous Forests
Sonoran desert Mexico, United States Nearctic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands

Protected Areas

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Habitat Vegetation Classification

Name Location  Website 
Chihuahuan Desert Foothill-Piedmont & Lower Montane Grassland United States (Texas, Arizona, New Mexico); Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Sonora)
Colorado Plateau Pinyon - Juniper Woodland United States (New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, California, Utah, Nevada)
Intermountain Basins Big Sagebrush Desert Shrubland United States (Oregon, Wyoming, Colorado, California, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah); Canada
Intermountain Basins Big Sagebrush Steppe Canada (British Columbia); United States (Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Colorado)
Intermountain Semi-Desert Grassland United States (Utah, New Mexico, Washington, Nevada, Idaho, California, Montana, Oregon, Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona)

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Oropsylla hirsuta[4]
Oropsylla idahoensis[4]
Oropsylla montana[4]
Oropsylla tuberculata cynomuris[4]
Thrassis bacchi consimilis[4]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Audio

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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
♦ 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
Audio software provided by SoundManager 2
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