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Tamias quadrimaculatus (long-eared chipmunk)

Synonyms: Eutamias quadrimaculatus; Neotamias quadrimaculatus (homotypic); Tamias macrohabdotes

Wikipedia Abstract

The long-eared chipmunk (Neotamias quadrimaculatus), also called the Sacramento chipmunk or the four-banded chipmunk, is a species of rodent in the squirrel family Sciuridae. It is endemic to the central and northern Sierra Nevada of California and Nevada in the United States. Long-eared chipmunks have the longest ears out of all species of chipmunks.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
24
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 9.21
EDGE Score: 2.32
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  85 grams
Female Weight [1]  92 grams
Male Weight [1]  79 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  16.5 %
Diet [2]  Frugivore, Granivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  50 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  50 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [3]  11 months 9 days
Gestation [3]  31 days
Hibernates [4]  Yes
Litter Size [3]  5
Litters / Year [3]  1
Snout to Vent Length [5]  6 inches (15 cm)
Habitat Substrate [4]  Arboreal

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Sierra Nevada forests United States Nearctic Temperate Coniferous Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Lassen Volcanic National Park II 29388 California, United States
Sevilleta LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research IV 228335 New Mexico, United States
Yosemite National Park II 95209 California, United States

Biodiversity Hotspots

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

Prey / Diet

Ceanothus cordulatus (whitethorn ceanothus)[1]
Nymphalis californica (California Tortoiseshell)[1]
Pinus lambertiana (Sugar pine)[1]
Pseudotsuga menziesii (Douglas fir)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Eumolpianus eumolpi eumolpi[6]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Tamias quadrimaculatus, Robin G. Clawson, Joseph A. Clawson, and Troy L. Best, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 469, pp. 1-6 (1994)
♦ 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
♦ 4Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 5Nathan 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
♦ 6International Flea Database
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