Diet Overlap

Xerospermophilus spilosoma (spotted ground squirrel)
Pituophis catenifer (Gopher Snake)

Common Diet

Dipodomys ordii (Ord's kangaroo rat)

Common Habitat

Arizona Mountains forests
Central and Southern mixed grasslands
Chihuahuan desert
Colorado Plateau shrublands
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands
Meseta Central matorral
Nebraska Sand Hills mixed grasslands
Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests
Sierra Madre Oriental pine-oak forests
Sonoran desert
Tamaulipan matorral
Tamaulipan mezquital
Western Gulf Coastal grasslands
Western short grasslands

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Spermophilus spilosoma, Donald P. Streubel and James P. Fitzgerald, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 101, pp. 1-4 (1978)
♦ 2Feeding ecology of North American gopher snakes (Pituophis catenifer, Colubridae), JAVIER A. RODRÍGUEZ-ROBLES, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2002, 77, 165–183