World Species : Callosciurus prevostii (Prevost's squirrel)

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Callosciurus prevostii (Prevost's squirrel)

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Synonyms: Sciurus prevostii (homotypic); Sciurus prevostii harrisoni

Wikipedia Abstract

Prevost's squirrel or Asian tri-colored squirrel (Callosciurus prevostii) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in forest in the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo and nearby smaller islands, with an introduced population in northern Sulawesi. They eat fruits, nuts, seeds, buds, flowers, insects and bird eggs. These squirrels carry the fruits far from the tree and drop the seeds when finished with their meal. The seeds far from the parent tree with reduced likelihood to be eaten by other animals bear an opportunity to produce new generation of plants.

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Infraspecies

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 17.89

EDGE Score: 2.94

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	400 grams
Birth Weight ^[1]	16 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 ^[1]	48 days
Litter Size ^[1]	2
Maximum Longevity ^[1]	21 years
Snout to Vent Length ^[3]	10 inches (26 cm)

Ecoregions

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Protected Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic	Species	Website
Indo-Burma	Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam	No
Sundaland	Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand	No

Prey / Diet

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Prey / Diet Overlap

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Full list (180)

Predators

Martes flavigula (Yellow-throated Marten)

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Consumers

Parasitized by
Farhangia sciuri	^[6]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
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♦ ³Nathan 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
♦ ⁴"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529572
♦ ⁵Jorrit 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.
♦ 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