World Species : Sciurus granatensis (red-tailed squirrel)

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Sciurus granatensis (red-tailed squirrel)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The red-tailed squirrel (Sciurus granatensis) is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus endemic to Central and South America. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.

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Infraspecies

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 3.3

EDGE Score: 1.46

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	374 grams
Birth Weight ^[1]	10 grams

Diet ^[2]	Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit ^[2]	20 %
Diet - Plants ^[2]	30 %
Diet - Seeds ^[2]	50 %
Forages - Arboreal ^[2]	100 %

Litter Size ^[1]	2
Litters / Year ^[1]	2
Maximum Longevity ^[1]	12 years
Snout to Vent Length ^[3]	9 inches (24 cm)
Weaning ^[1]	61 days

Ecoregions

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Protected Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic
Mesoamerica	Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama	No
Tropical Andes	Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela	No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena	Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru	No

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
♦ 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
♦ ⁴Sciurus granatensis, Leslie Zuhn Nitikman, Mammalian Species No. 246, pp. 1-8 (1985)
♦ ⁵"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529572
♦ ⁶MONKEY DISPERSAL AND WASTE OF A NEOTROPICAL FRUIT, Henry F. Howe, Ecology, 61(4), 1980, pp. 944-959
♦ ⁷International Flea Database
♦ ⁸Jorrit 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.

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