MammalBase - Accepted taxon: Martes flavigula

Accepted taxon: Martes flavigula
Taxon:	Martes flavigula
Rank:	Species
Higher Classification:	CARNIVORA \| CANIFORMIA \| Mustelidae \| Mustelinae \| Martes
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 Martes flavigula diet.
CF (Crude Fibre) 1, ASH (Ash contents) 6, NFE (Nitrogen-Free-Extract) 6, CP (Crude Protein) 52, EE (Ether Extract) 15. 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 Martes flavigula.
TSN Complete name	Part	Ratio ^a.	Reference(s)
Moschus	WHOLE	15.24	Nowak,R. …
Rodentia	WHOLE	7.52	Nowak,R. …
Ochotona	WHOLE	5.23	Nowak,R. …
Artiodactyla	WHOLE	5.20	Nowak,R. …
Sus scrofa	WHOLE	4.29	Smith,A. …
Vertebrata	EGGS	3.63	Nowak,R. …
Insecta	WHOLE	3.40	Nowak,R. …
Aves	WHOLE	3.19	Smith,A. …
Anura	WHOLE	2.91	Nowak,R. …
Cervus	WHOLE	2.86	Smith,A. …
Cornaceae	FRUIT	2.05	Zhou, Y.B…
Serpentes	WHOLE	1.73	Smith,A. …
Squamata	WHOLE	1.52	Smith,A. …
Hovenia dulcis	FRUIT	1.50	Zhou, Y.B…
Sorbus	FRUIT	1.45	Zhou, Y.B…
Actinidia chinensis	FRUIT	1.43	Zhou, Y.B…
Naemorhedus	WHOLE	1.43	Smith,A. …
Schisandraceae	FRUIT	1.43	Zhou, Y.B…
Coleoptera	WHOLE	1.39	Zhou, Y.B…
Magnoliopsida	FRUIT	1.38	Nowak,R. …
Leopoldamys edwardsi	WHOLE	1.37	Zhou, Y.B…
Macroharpa	FRUIT	1.37	Zhou, Y.B…
Lardizabalaceae	FRUIT	1.29	Zhou, Y.B…
Niviventer confucianus	WHOLE	1.28	Zhou, Y.B…
Apodemus	WHOLE	1.25	Zhou, Y.B…
Sciuridae	WHOLE	1.22	Zhou, Y.B…
Diospyros lotus	FRUIT	1.20	Zhou, Y.B…
Ulmaceae	FRUIT	1.16	Zhou, Y.B…
Apoidea	WHOLE	1.15	Zhou, Y.B…
Berylmys bowersi	WHOLE	1.09	Zhou, Y.B…
Eothenomys	WHOLE	1.09	Zhou, Y.B…
Magnoliopsida	EXUDATES	1.02	Nowak,R. …
Tragopan temminckii	WHOLE	0.98	Zhou, Y.B…
Rattus	WHOLE	0.97	Zhou, Y.B…
Reptilia	WHOLE	0.96	Zhou, Y.B…
Magnoliopsida	LEAF	0.92	Zhou, Y.B…
Chrysolophus pictus	WHOLE	0.88	Zhou, Y.B…
Actinidiaceae	FRUIT	0.86	Zhou, Y.B…
Arthropoda	WHOLE	0.84	Zhou, Y.B…
Niviventer fulvescens	WHOLE	0.78	Zhou, Y.B…
Paa	WHOLE	0.78	Zhou, Y.B…
Homoptera	WHOLE	0.71	Zhou, Y.B…
Passeriformes	WHOLE	0.69	Zhou, Y.B…
Mollusca	WHOLE	0.65	Zhou, Y.B…
Trimeresurus stejnegeri	WHOLE	0.62	Zhou, Y.B…
Crataegus	FRUIT	0.60	Zhou, Y.B…
Hymenoptera	WHOLE	0.60	Zhou, Y.B…
Amphibia	WHOLE	0.57	Zhou, Y.B…
Pucrasia macrolopha	WHOLE	0.56	Zhou, Y.B…
Crustacea	WHOLE	0.48	Zhou, Y.B…
Magnoliopsida	NECTAR/JUICE	0.43	Smith,A. …
Actinidia	FRUIT	0.37	Zhou, Y.B…
Trimeresurus jerdonii	WHOLE	0.35	Zhou, Y.B…
Plantae	SHOOT	0.32	Zhou, Y.B…
Elaphe taeniurus	WHOLE	0.32	Zhou, Y.B…
Magnoliopsida	FLOWER	0.29	Zhou, Y.B…
Rana nigromaculata	WHOLE	0.27	Zhou, Y.B…
Lagomorpha	WHOLE	0.22	Zhou, Y.B…
Elaphodus cephalophus	WHOLE	0.20	Zhou, Y.B…
Capricornis milneedwardsii	WHOLE	0.18	Zhou, Y.B…
Aves	EGGS	0.14	Zhou, Y.B…
Hemiptera	WHOLE	0.09	Zhou, Y.B…
Magnoliopsida	BUD	0.06	Zhou, Y.B…
Magnoliopsida	BARK	0.05	Zhou, Y.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 Martes flavigula.
Trait	Selected Value	All Value(s)	Reference(s)
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.
Temporal habits	diurnal	diurnal	– John L. Gittleman, 1985, 'Carnivore body size: Ecological and taxonomic correlates', Oecologia, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 540-554
Locomotion: Eisenberg 1981	Scansonal	Scansonal	– 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, Frugivore-omnivore	– 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.

Table 3. List of Standard Measurements for Martes flavigula.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	-	-	-	-	1,175	-	3,400	-	Freudenth…
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	-	-	-	-	-	2,505	-	-	Juhn, M.,…

Table 4. List of other Measurements ^b. for Martes flavigula.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
humerus diameter	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	6	-	-	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 Martes flavigula.
Taxon	Reference	Match	Status
Martes flavigula	Gittleman,J. L., 1985, Carnivore body size: ecological and taxonomic correlates, Oecologia	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Martes flavigula	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
Martes flavigula	Nowak,R. M., 1991, Walker's mammals of the world,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Martes flavigula	Smith,A. T., 2010, A guide to the mammals of China,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Martes flavigula	Nowak,R. M., 1991, Walker's mammals of the world,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Martes flavigula	Law, C.J., Blackwell, E.A., Curtis, A.A., Dickinson, E., Hartstone‐Rose, A. and Santana, S.E., 2022. Decoupled evolution of the cranium and mandible in carnivoran mammals. Evolution.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Martes flavigula	Zhou, Y.B., Newman, C., Buesching, C.D., Zalewski, A., Kaneko, Y., Macdonald, D.W. and Xie, Z.Q., 2011. Diet of an opportunistically frugivorous carnivore, Martes flavigula, in subtropical forest. Journal of Mammalogy, 92(3), pp.611-619.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Martes flavigula	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
Martes flavigula	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
Martes flavigula	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
Martes flavigula	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
Martes flavigula	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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