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Poecilogale albinucha (African Striped Weasel)

Wikipedia Abstract

The African striped weasel (Poecilogale albinucha), the lone member of its genus, is a small, black and white weasel native to sub-Saharan Africa.
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Infraspecies

Poecilogale albinucha albinucha (White-naped weasel)
Poecilogale albinucha bechuanae (White-naped weasel)
Poecilogale albinucha doggetti
Poecilogale albinucha lebombo (White-naped weasel)
Poecilogale albinucha transvaalensis (White-naped weasel)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
8
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
32
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 16.41
EDGE Score: 2.86
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  295 grams
Birth Weight [2]  4 grams
Female Weight [1]  251 grams
Male Weight [1]  339 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  35.1 %
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Ectothermic [3]  20 %
Diet - Endothermic [3]  70 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  10 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [2]  1 year 2 months
Male Maturity [1]  8 months
Gestation [2]  32 days
Litter Size [2]  2
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  6 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [4]  13 inches (33 cm)
Weaning [2]  65 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Kahuzi-Biéga National Park II 1647768 Democratic Republic of the Congo  
Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve II 256073 Western Cape, South Africa  
Queen Elizabeth National Park II 522052 Uganda
Tsitsikamma National Park II 34343 Southern Cape, South Africa  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Cape Floristic Region South Africa No
Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania No
Eastern Afromontane Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe No
Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Asio capensis (Marsh Owl)[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ctenocephalides felis strongylus[6]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Poecilogale albinucha, Serge Larivière, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 681 (2001)
♦ 2de 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
♦ 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
♦ 4Nathan 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
♦ 5The Serengeti food web: empirical quantification and analysis of topological changes under increasing human impact, Sara N. de Visser, Bernd P. Freymann and Han Olff, Journal of Animal Ecology 2011, 80, 484–494
♦ 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