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Spilogale pygmaea (Pygmy Spotted Skunk)

Wikipedia Abstract

The pygmy spotted skunk (Spilogale pygmaea) is a species of mammal in the family Mephitidae. It is endemic to Mexico.
View Wikipedia Record: Spilogale pygmaea

Infraspecies

Spilogale pygmaea australis
Spilogale pygmaea intermedia
Spilogale pygmaea pygmaea

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Spilogale pygmaea

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
5
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
48
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 11.19
EDGE Score: 3.89
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  235 grams
Birth Weight [2]  7 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Endothermic [3]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  80 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Gestation [2]  48 days
Litter Size [2]  4
Litters / Year [2]  1
Snout to Vent Length [2]  14 inches (35 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Mount Mitchell State Park   North Carolina, United States
Mount Rainier National Park II 235186 Washington, United States
Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve 37548505 North Carolina, Tennessee, United States  
Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge IV 26618 Alabama, United States

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Prey / Diet

Balantiopteryx plicata (gray sac-winged bat)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Tyto alba (Barn Owl)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Pachysentis gethi[5]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Felisa A. Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons, S. K. Morgan Ernest, Kate E. Jones, Dawn M. Kaufman, Tamar Dayan, Pablo A. Marquet, James H. Brown, and John P. Haskell. 2003. Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84:3403
♦ 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
♦ 4Balantiopteryx plicata, Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales and J. Knox Jones, Jr., MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 301, pp. 1-4 (1988)
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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