MammalBase - Accepted taxon: Echinosorex gymnura

Accepted taxon: Echinosorex gymnura
Taxon:	Echinosorex gymnura
Rank:	Species
Higher Classification:	ERINACEOMORPHA \| Erinaceidae \| Galericinae \| Echinosorex
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 Echinosorex gymnura diet.
CF (Crude Fibre) 4, ASH (Ash contents) 15, NFE (Nitrogen-Free-Extract) 12, CP (Crude Protein) 58, EE (Ether Extract) 10. 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 Echinosorex gymnura.
TSN Complete name	Part	Ratio ^a.	Reference(s)
Oligochaeta	WHOLE	27.98	Grzimek,B…
Arthropoda	WHOLE	17.86	Grzimek,B…
Brachyura	WHOLE	9.76	Grzimek,B…
Anura	WHOLE	8.33	Nowak,R. …
Insecta	WHOLE	7.62	Grzimek,B…
Osteichthyes	WHOLE	6.67	Nowak,R. …
Mollusca	WHOLE	6.67	Nowak,R. …
Crustacea	WHOLE	5.00	Nowak,R. …
Vertebrata	WHOLE	4.17	Nowak,R. …
Caridea	WHOLE	3.57	Grzimek,B…
Gastropoda	WHOLE	2.38	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 Echinosorex gymnura.
Trait	Selected Value	All Value(s)	Reference(s)

Table 3. List of Standard Measurements for Echinosorex gymnura.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	13	13	-	-	-	639.38	-	-	Engelman,…
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	-	-	-	-	445	-	2,000	-	Freudenth…
Head-Body Length (HBL)	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	318.82	-	-	Engelman,…
Occipital condyle width (OCW)	nan	mm	13	13	-	-	-	15.01	-	-	Engelman,…

Table 4. List of other Measurements ^b. for Echinosorex gymnura.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
brainmass	nan	g	-	-	-	-	-	6	-	-	Engelman,…
skull_length	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	76	-	-	Engelman,…
BMR (kJ/h)	nan	kJ/h	-	-	-	-	-	10	-	-	McNab, B.…
femur circumference	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	13	-	-	Nelson, A…
humerus circumference	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	11	-	-	Nelson, A…
neck length	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	37	-	-	Nelson, A…

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

Table 5. List of Data Sources for Echinosorex gymnura.
Taxon	Reference	Match	Status
Echinosorex gymnurus	Nowak,R. M., 1991, Walker's mammals of the world,	51: Name variant or misspelling of the taxon	Verified - Accepted
Echinosorex gymnura	Grzimek,B., 2003, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Mammals I-V,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Echinosorex gymnurus	Nowak,R. M., 1991, Walker's mammals of the world,	51: Name variant or misspelling of the taxon	Verified - Accepted
Echinosorex gymnura	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
Echinosorex gymnura	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
Echinosorex gymnura	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
Echinosorex gymnura	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
Echinosorex gymnura	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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