MammalBase - Accepted taxon: Leopardus tigrinus

Accepted taxon: Leopardus tigrinus
Taxon:	Leopardus tigrinus
Rank:	Species
Higher Classification:	CARNIVORA \| FELIFORMIA \| Felidae \| Felinae \| Leopardus
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 Leopardus tigrinus diet.
CF (Crude Fibre) 1, ASH (Ash contents) 13, NFE (Nitrogen-Free-Extract) 8, CP (Crude Protein) 58, EE (Ether Extract) 21. 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 Leopardus tigrinus.
TSN Complete name	Part	Ratio ^a.	Reference(s)
Mammalia	WHOLE	18.60	Damuth, J…
Aves	WHOLE	13.69	Damuth, J…
Rodentia	WHOLE	12.77	Grzimek,B…
Anura	WHOLE	7.50	Grzimek,B…
Leporidae	WHOLE	5.00	Grzimek,B…
Akodon	WHOLE	2.69	Rocha-Men…
Orthoptera	WHOLE	2.61	Rocha-Men…
Mus musculus	WHOLE	2.52	Rocha-Men…
Coleoptera	WHOLE	2.44	Rocha-Men…
Arthropoda	WHOLE	2.35	Rocha-Men…
Didelphimorphia	WHOLE	2.27	Rocha-Men…
Hylaeamys megacephalus	WHOLE	2.18	Rocha-Men…
Syagrus romanzoffiana	FRUIT	2.10	Rocha-Men…
Oligoryzomys flavescens	WHOLE	2.02	Rocha-Men…
Sylvilagus brasiliensis	WHOLE	1.85	Rocha-Men…
Caluromys lanatus	WHOLE	1.76	Rocha-Men…
Micoureus paraguayanus	WHOLE	1.68	Rocha-Men…
Colubridae	WHOLE	1.68	Rocha-Men…
Necromys lasiurus	WHOLE	1.60	Rocha-Men…
Nectomys squamipes	WHOLE	1.51	Rocha-Men…
Cuniculus paca	WHOLE	1.43	Rocha-Men…
Nasua nasua	WHOLE	1.34	Rocha-Men…
Marmosops	WHOLE	1.18	Rocha-Men…
Monodelphis	WHOLE	1.09	Rocha-Men…
Philander frenatus	WHOLE	1.01	Rocha-Men…
Holochilus brasiliensis	WHOLE	0.92	Rocha-Men…
Oxymycterus	WHOLE	0.84	Rocha-Men…
Thaptomys nigrita	WHOLE	0.76	Rocha-Men…
Pteroglossus aracari	WHOLE	0.67	Rocha-Men…
Picumnus cirratus	WHOLE	0.59	Rocha-Men…
Serpentes	WHOLE	0.50	Rocha-Men…
Hymenoptera	WHOLE	0.34	Rocha-Men…
Hemiptera	WHOLE	0.25	Rocha-Men…
Diplopoda	WHOLE	0.17	Rocha-Men…
Vertebrata	EGGS	0.08	Rocha-Men…

^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 Leopardus tigrinus.
Trait	Selected Value	All Value(s)	Reference(s)
Locomotion: Eisenberg 1981	Scansonal	Scansonal	– John L. Gittleman, 1985, 'Carnivore body size: Ecological and taxonomic correlates', Oecologia, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 540-554, Paglia,A. P., 2012, Lista Anotada dos Mamíferos do Brasil 2ª Edição Annotated Checklist of Brazilian Mammals 2nd Edition
Dietary category: Miljutin 2009	Animalivore	Animalivore, Frugivore	– John L. Gittleman, 1985, 'Carnivore body size: Ecological and taxonomic correlates', Oecologia, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 540-554, Juhn, M., Balisi, M., Doughty, E., Friscia, A., Howenstine, A., Jacquemetton, C., Marcot, J., Nugen, S., Van Valkenburgh, B. 2024. Cenozoic climate change and the evolution of North American mammalian predator ecomorphology. Paleobiology. None(None), pp.1-10. Available at: 10.1017/pab.2024.27., Paglia,A. P., 2012, Lista Anotada dos Mamíferos do Brasil 2ª Edição Annotated Checklist of Brazilian Mammals 2nd Edition
Temporal habits	arrhythmic	arrhythmic	– John L. Gittleman, 1985, 'Carnivore body size: Ecological and taxonomic correlates', Oecologia, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 540-554
Dietary category: Eisenberg 1981	Carnivore	Carnivore	– Juhn, M., Balisi, M., Doughty, E., Friscia, A., Howenstine, A., Jacquemetton, C., Marcot, J., Nugen, S., Van Valkenburgh, B. 2024. Cenozoic climate change and the evolution of North American mammalian predator ecomorphology. Paleobiology. None(None), pp.1-10. Available at: 10.1017/pab.2024.27., Paglia,A. P., 2012, Lista Anotada dos Mamíferos do Brasil 2ª Edição Annotated Checklist of Brazilian Mammals 2nd Edition

Table 3. List of Standard Measurements for Leopardus tigrinus.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	-	-	-	-	-	2,415	-	-	Juhn, M.,…
Body Mass (BM)	Brazil	g	-	-	-	-	1,500	2,250	3,000	-	Paglia,A.…
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	-	-	-	-	1,400	-	3,500	-	Freudenth…

Table 4. List of other Measurements ^b. for Leopardus tigrinus.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
femur circumference	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	21	-	-	Nelson, A…
humerus circumference	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	20	-	-	Nelson, A…
relative blade length (RBL)	nan	unitless	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	Juhn, M.S…

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

Table 5. List of Data Sources for Leopardus tigrinus.
Taxon	Reference	Match	Status
Felis tigrina	Nowak,R. M., 1991, Walker's mammals of the world,	52: Genus, Species = Master subfamily genus, species	Verified - Accepted
Leopardus tigrinus	Gittleman,J. L., 1985, Carnivore body size: ecological and taxonomic correlates, Oecologia	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Leopardus tigrinus	Paglia,A. P., 2012, Lista Anotada dos MamÃƒÂferos do Brasil 2Ã‚Âª EdiÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o Annotated Checklist of Brazilian Mammals,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Leopardus tigrinus	Damuth, J. 2010. ABSOLUT 6 a mammalian database compiled by the national center for ecological analysis and synthesis (NCEAS ) workshop on mammalian communities.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Leopardus tigrinus	Grzimek,B., 2003, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Mammals I-V,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Leopardus tigrinus	Rocha-Mendes, F., Mikich, S.B., Quadros, J. and Pedro, W.A., 2010. Feeding ecology of carnivores (Mammalia, Carnivora) in Atlantic forest remnants, southern Brazil. Biota Neotropica, 10, pp.21-30.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Leopardus tigrinus	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
Leopardus tigrinus	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
Leopardus tigrinus	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
Leopardus tigrinus	Juhn, M.S., Balisi, M.A., Doughty, E.M., Friscia, A.R., Howenstine, A.O., Jacquemetton, C., Marcot, J., Nugen, S. and Van Valkenburgh, B., 2024. Cenozoic climate change and the evolution of North American mammalian predator ecomorphology. Paleobiology, pp.1-10.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Leopardus tigrinus	Beaudrot, L., Acevedo, M.A., Gorczynski, D. and Harris, N.C., 2024. Geographic differences in body size distributions underlie food web connectance of tropical forest mammals. Scientific Reports, 14(1), pp.1-10.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Leopardus tigrinus	Rowan, J., Beaudrot, L., Franklin, J., Reed, K.E., Smail, I.E., Zamora, A. and Kamilar, J.M., 2020. Geographically divergent evolutionary and ecological legacies shape mammal biodiversity in the global tropics and subtropics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(3), pp.1559-1565.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted

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