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Callosciurus erythraeus (Pallas's squirrel)

Synonyms: Sciurus erythraeus (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Pallas's squirrel (Callosciurus erythraeus), also known as the red-bellied tree squirrel, is a species of squirrel native to Greater China, India, and Southeast Asia.
View Wikipedia Record: Callosciurus erythraeus

Infraspecies

Callosciurus erythraeus atrodorsalis
Callosciurus erythraeus bartoni
Callosciurus erythraeus bhutanensis
Callosciurus erythraeus bonhotei
Callosciurus erythraeus castaneoventris
Callosciurus erythraeus erythraeus
Callosciurus erythraeus erythrogaster
Callosciurus erythraeus flavimanus
Callosciurus erythraeus gloveri
Callosciurus erythraeus gordoni
Callosciurus erythraeus griseimanus
Callosciurus erythraeus harringtoni
Callosciurus erythraeus hendeei
Callosciurus erythraeus hyperythrus
Callosciurus erythraeus intermedius
Callosciurus erythraeus michianus
Callosciurus erythraeus ningpoensis
Callosciurus erythraeus pranis
Callosciurus erythraeus rubeculus
Callosciurus erythraeus shanicus
Callosciurus erythraeus siamensis
Callosciurus erythraeus sladeni
Callosciurus erythraeus styani
Callosciurus erythraeus thai
Callosciurus erythraeus thaiwanensis
Callosciurus erythraeus zimmeensis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
8
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
33
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 16.6
EDGE Score: 2.87
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  272 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  20 %
Diet - Plants [2]  30 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  20 %
Diet - Vertibrates [2]  10 %
Forages - Arboreal [2]  100 %
Gestation [3]  48 days
Litter Size [1]  1.9
Litters / Year [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  17 years
Snout to Vent Length [5]  10 inches (25 cm)
Habitat Substrate [4]  Arboreal

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Himalaya Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan No
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

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Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de 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
♦ 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
♦ 3Callosciurus erythraeus (Rodentia: Sciuridae), PETER W. W. LURZ, VIRGINIA HAYSSEN, KIMBERLY GEISSLER, AND SANDRO BERTOLINO, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 45(902):60–74 (2013)
♦ 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
♦ 6"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 8International 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