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Eutamias ochrogenys (yellow-cheeked chipmunk)

Synonyms: Neotamias ochrogenys; Tamias ochrogenys

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
23
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.33
EDGE Score: 2.23
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  89 grams
Birth Weight [2]  4 grams
Diet [3]  Frugivore, Granivore
Diet - Fruit [3]  50 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  50 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [2]  11 months 23 days
Gestation [2]  28 days
Litter Size [2]  4
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [2]  10 years
Snout to Vent Length [2]  6 inches (15 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Northern California coastal forests United States Nearctic Temperate Coniferous Forests

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States Yes

Prey / Diet

Cytisus scoparius (Broomtops)[1]
Morella californica (California wax myrtle)[1]
Rubus leucodermis (western raspberry)[1]
Toxicodendron diversilobum (pacific poisonoak)[1]
Vaccinium ovatum (evergreen blueberry)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Tamias ochrogenys, William L. Gannon, Richard B. Forbes, and Douglas E. Kain, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 445, pp. 1-4 (1993)
♦ 2Nathan 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
♦ 3Hamish 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
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
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