Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Rodentia > Sciuridae > Tamias > Tamias dorsalisTamias dorsalis (cliff chipmunk)Synonyms: Eutamias canescens; Eutamias dorsalis; Neotamias dorsalis (homotypic) The cliff chipmunk (Tamias dorsalis) is a small, bushy-tailed squirrel that typically lives along cliff walls or boulder fields bordering Pinyon-juniper woodlands in the Western United States and Mexico. Cliff chipmunks are very agile, and can often be seen scaling steep cliff walls. Cliff chipmunks do not amass body fat as the more common ground squirrel does. They create a "stash" of food which they frequent during the cold winter months. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 4.15 EDGE Score: 1.64 |
Adult Weight [1] | 67 grams | Female Weight [1] | 72 grams | Male Weight [1] | 63 grams | Weight Dimorphism [1] | 14.3 % | | Diet [2] | Frugivore, Granivore | Diet - Fruit [2] | 50 % | Diet - Seeds [2] | 50 % | Forages - Ground [2] | 100 % | | Gestation [3] | 30 days | Litter Size [3] | 5 | Litters / Year [3] | 2 | Maximum Longevity [3] | 13 years | Snout to Vent Length [1] | 6 inches (14 cm) |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Beaver Creek Biosphere Reserve |
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275028 |
Arizona, United States |
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Bryce Canyon National Park |
II |
36348 |
Utah, United States |
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Chiricahua National Monument |
V |
1421 |
Arizona, United States |
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Dinosaur National Monument |
III |
203307 |
Colorado, Utah, United States |
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El Malpais National Monument |
III |
109980 |
New Mexico, 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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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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Pecos National Historical Park |
V |
6539 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Saguaro National Park |
II |
11686 |
Arizona, United States |
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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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Tonto National Monument |
V |
1123 |
Arizona, United States |
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Walnut Canyon National Monument |
V |
3386 |
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 ♦ 1Nathan 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 ♦ 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 ♦ 3de 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 ♦ 4Tamias dorsalis, E. Blake Hart, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 399, pp. 1-6 (1992) ♦ 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. ♦ 6International 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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