Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Rodentia > Sciuridae > Callosciurus > Callosciurus pygerythrusCallosciurus pygerythrus (Irrawaddy squirrel)The Irrawaddy squirrel or hoary-bellied Himalayan squirrel (Callosciurus pygerythrus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae.It is found in Bangladesh, China, India, Myanmar, and Nepal. It is threatened by habitat loss. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 15.09 EDGE Score: 2.78 |
| Diet [1] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore | | Diet - Fruit [1] | 20 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [1] | 20 % | | Diet - Plants [1] | 30 % | | Diet - Seeds [1] | 20 % | | Diet - Vertibrates [1] | 10 % | | Forages - Arboreal [1] | 100 % |  | | Maximum Longevity [2] | 5 years | | Snout to Vent Length [2] | 11 inches (28 cm) |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
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Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests |
India |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Chin Hills-Arakan Yoma montane forests |
Myanmar, India |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests |
India, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Irrawaddy dry forests |
Myanmar |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Irrawaddy moist deciduous forests |
Myanmar |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Kayah-Karen montane rain forests |
Myanmar, Thailand |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests |
Bangladesh, India |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Meghalaya subtropical forests |
India |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Mizoram-Manipur-Kachin rain forests |
Myanmar, India, Bangladesh |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Myanmar Coast mangroves |
India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Thailand |
Indo-Malayan |
Mangroves |
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Myanmar coastal rain forests |
Myanmar, Bangladesh |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Northeast India-Myanmar pine forests |
India, Myanmar |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests |
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Northern Indochina subtropical forests |
China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Northern Triangle subtropical forests |
Myanmar |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Northern Triangle temperate forests |
Myanmar |
Indo-Malayan |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Yunnan Plateau subtropical evergreen forests |
China |
Palearctic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Himalaya |
Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan |
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Indo-Burma |
Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam |
No |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Hamish 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 ♦ 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 ♦ 3Sidhu, Swati; Datta, Aparajita (2016), Data from: Tracking seed fates of tropical tree species: evidence for seed caching in a tropical forest in north-east India, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.5g18m ♦ 4International Flea DatabaseEcoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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