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Urocitellus canus (Merriam's ground squirrel; gray ground squirrel)

Synonyms: Spermophilus canus

Wikipedia Abstract

Merriam's ground squirrel (Urocitellus canus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It occurs in the states of Idaho, Nevada, and Oregon in the United States.
View Wikipedia Record: Urocitellus canus

Infraspecies

Urocitellus canus canus
Urocitellus canus vigilis (speckled sage squirrel)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
17
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.36
EDGE Score: 1.85
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  171 grams
Female Weight [3]  170 grams
Male Weight [3]  200 grams
Weight Dimorphism [3]  17.6 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  20 %
Diet - Plants [2]  40 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  40 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  1 year
Male Maturity [1]  2 years
Gestation [1]  23 days
Litter Size [1]  8
Litters / Year [3]  1
Snout to Vent Length [1]  16 inches (41 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Eastern Cascades forests United States Nearctic Temperate Coniferous Forests
Great Basin montane forests United States Nearctic Temperate Coniferous Forests
Great Basin shrub steppe United States Nearctic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Snake-Columbia shrub steppe United States Nearctic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands

Predators

Bubo virginianus (Great Horned Owl)[3]
Tyto alba (Barn Owl)[4]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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
♦ 3Urocitellus canus (Rodentia: Sciuridae) F. RUSSELL COLE AND DON E. WILSON, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 834:1–8 (2009)
♦ 4Thomomys townsendii, B. J. Verts and Leslie N. Carraway, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 719, pp. 1–6 (2003)
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
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