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Spermophilus dauricus (Daurian ground squirrel)

Synonyms: Spermophilus mongolicus; Spermophilus ramosus; Spermophilus umbratus; Spermophilus yamashinae

Wikipedia Abstract

The Daurian ground squirrel (Spermophilus dauricus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in China, Mongolia, and Russia.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
11
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.33
EDGE Score: 1.46
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  151 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  20 %
Diet - Plants [2]  40 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  40 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Gestation [3]  30 days
Litter Size [3]  5
Litters / Year [3]  1
Maximum Longevity [3]  2 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  16 inches (41 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Daurskiy Biosphere Reserve 562659 Russia  

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Digestive tract morphology and food habits in six species of rodents, De-Hua WANG, Yan-Xin PEI, Jun-Cheng YANG and Zu-Wang WANG, Folia Zool. – 52(1): 51–55 (2003)
♦ 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
♦ 4International Flea Database
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 6Jorrit 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
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