🐿️Eastern chipmunk
Le tamia rayé ou tamia strié (Tamias striatus), appelé aussi suisse rayé en Amérique du Nord, est une espèce de rongeurs de la famille des Sciuridae. Il vit dans les forêts de feuillus et dans les parcs urbains dans la partie Est des États-Unis et du Canada. Selon certains systèmes de classification, elle est l’unique espèce du genre Tamias, les autres étant dispersées dans les genres Eutamias et Neotamias. Cette espèce fut un temps vendue comme NAC, mais plus rarement que le Tamia de Sibérie.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.
- Body mass
- 0.09 kg
- Body length
- 0.17 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 9.49 years
Everything we know about the Eastern chipmunk
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.09 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 0.1 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length0.17 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass2.17 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan9.49 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 9.5 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length3.18 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity199 daysCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation31 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 31 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter sizeabout 4COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 5AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelOmnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density565 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.1 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Eastern chipmunk yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderRodentia
- ›familySciuridae
- ›genusTamias
- ›speciesTamias striatus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderRodents · Rodentia
- tribeMarmotini
- genusTamias
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderEuarchontoglires
- orderRodents · Rodentia
- suborderSciuromorpha
- familySciuridae
- tribeMarmotini
- genusTamias
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