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Uropsilus investigator (Inquisitive Shrew Mole)

Wikipedia Abstract

The inquisitive shrew mole (Uropsilus investigator) is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae. It is endemic to the Yunnan province of China, although its range is thought to extend over the border into Burma.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
12
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Not determined do to incomplete vulnerability data.
ED Score: 24.31
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  15 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Snout to Vent Length [1]  3.15 inches (8 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Nujiang Langcang Gorge alpine conifer and mixed forests China Palearctic Temperate Coniferous Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Gaoligong Mountain National Nature Reserve V 1245925 Yunnan, China  
Nujiang Nature Reserve   China      
Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas World Heritage Site 2416001 Yunnan, China      

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar Yes

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan 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
♦ 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
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