MammalBase - Accepted taxon: Erinaceus europaeus

Accepted taxon: Erinaceus europaeus
Taxon:	Erinaceus europaeus
Rank:	Species
Higher Classification:	ERINACEOMORPHA \| Erinaceidae \| Erinaceinae \| Erinaceus
Reference:	Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), JHU Press, 2005.

Fig.1 - Ternary plot of the proximate analysis for the Erinaceus europaeus diet.
CF (Crude Fibre) 3, ASH (Ash contents) 5, NFE (Nitrogen-Free-Extract) 8, CP (Crude Protein) 26, EE (Ether Extract) 8. See details for the calculations in Lintulaakso, K., Tatti, N. and Žliobaitė, I., 2022. Quantifying mammalian diets. Mammalian Biology, pp.1-15. [DOI]

Table 1. List of Diet Items for Erinaceus europaeus.
TSN Complete name	Part	Ratio ^a.	Reference(s)
Coleoptera	WHOLE	18.18	Grzimek,B…
Animalia	LARVAE	16.36	Grzimek,B…
Gastropoda	WHOLE	14.55	Grzimek,B…
Oligochaeta	WHOLE	12.73	Grzimek,B…
Araneae	WHOLE	10.91	Grzimek,B…
Arthropoda	WHOLE	9.09	Grzimek,B…
Vertebrata	WHOLE	7.27	Grzimek,B…
Vertebrata	EGGS	5.45	Grzimek,B…
Magnoliopsida	FRUIT	3.64	Grzimek,B…
Fungi	SHOOT	1.82	Grzimek,B…

^a. Standardized values. See details for the calculations in Lintulaakso, K., Tatti, N. and Žliobaitė, I., 2022. Quantifying mammalian diets. Mammalian Biology, pp.1-15. [DOI]

Table 2. List of Standard Traits for Erinaceus europaeus.
Trait	Selected Value	All Value(s)	Reference(s)
Dietary category: Eisenberg 1981	Insectivore	Insectivore	Brian K. …
Dietary category: Miljutin 2009	Animalivore	Animalivore	Brian K. …

Table 3. List of Standard Measurements for Erinaceus europaeus.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	3	3	-	-	-	520	-	-	Engelman,…
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	-	-	-	-	372	-	2,000	-	Freudenth…
Head-Body Length (HBL)	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	210	-	-	Engelman,…
Occipital condyle width (OCW)	nan	mm	3	3	-	-	-	13.12	-	-	Engelman,…

Table 4. List of other Measurements ^b. for Erinaceus europaeus.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
brainmass	nan	g	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	Engelman,…
skull_length	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	56	-	-	Engelman,…
BMR (kJ/h)	nan	kJ/h	-	-	-	-	-	7	-	-	McNab, B.…
femur circumference	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	17	-	-	Nelson, A…
humerus circumference	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	16	-	-	Nelson, A…
neck length	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	20	-	-	Nelson, A…
BMR,mlO2/h	nan	mlO2/h	8	8	-	-	-	337	-	-	Genoud, M…
BMR,mlO2/h	nan	mlO2/h	7	7	-	-	-	401	-	-	Genoud, M…
BMR,mlO2/h	nan	mlO2/h	5	5	-	-	-	436	-	-	Genoud, M…

^b. other Measurements. Source Measurements which are not listed on or mapped with the Standard Traits..

Table 5. List of Data Sources for Erinaceus europaeus.
Taxon	Reference	Match	Status
Erinaceus europeus	McNab,B. K., 1986, The influence of food habits on the energetics of eutherian mammals, Ecological Monographs	51: Name variant or misspelling of the taxon	Verified - Accepted
Erinaceus europaeus	Grzimek,B., 2003, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Mammals I-V,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Erinaceus europaeus	Engelman, R.K., 2022. Occipital condyle width (OCW) is a highly accurate predictor of body mass in therian mammals. BMC biology, 20(1), p.37.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Erinaceus europaeus	DeMers, A.C., 2023. Functional Significance of the Mandible, Tooth Roots, and Tooth Crowns, and their Implications for Fossil Dietary Inference (Doctoral dissertation, The Ohio State University).	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Erinaceus europaeus	McNab, B.K., 2008. An analysis of the factors that influence the level and scaling of mammalian BMR. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 151(1), pp.5-28.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Erinaceus europaeus	Nelson, A., Engelman, R.K. and Croft, D.A., 2023. How to weigh a fossil mammal? South American notoungulates as a case study for estimating body mass in extinct clades. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 30(3), pp.773-809.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Erinaceus europaeus	Genoud, M., Isler, K. and Martin, R.D., 2018. Comparative analyses of basal rate of metabolism in mammals: data selection does matter. Biological Reviews, 93(1), pp.404-438.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Erinaceus europaeus	Freudenthal, M. and Martín-Suárez, E., 2013. Estimating body mass of fossil rodents. Scripta Geologica, 145, pp.1-513.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted

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