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MammalBase - Accepted taxon: Mustela erminea

Accepted taxon: Mustela erminea


Accepted taxon: Mustela erminea
Taxon: Mustela erminea
Rank: Species
Higher Classification: CARNIVORA | CANIFORMIA | Mustelidae | Mustelinae | Mustela
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 Mustela erminea diet.
CF (Crude Fibre) 1, ASH (Ash contents) 10, NFE (Nitrogen-Free-Extract) 7, CP (Crude Protein) 57, EE (Ether Extract) 25. 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 Mustela erminea.
TSN Complete name Part Ratio a. Reference(s)
Aves WHOLE 19.38 Damuth, J…
Mammalia WHOLE 19.33 Damuth, J…
Muridae WHOLE 17.86 Grzimek,B…
Rodentia WHOLE 12.15 Grzimek,B…
Vertebrata EGGS 5.79 Nowak,R. …
Anura WHOLE 3.95 Nowak,R. …
Arvicolinae WHOLE 3.11 Grzimek,B…
Lagomorpha WHOLE 3.08 Smith,A. …
Sciurinae WHOLE 2.56 Smith,A. …
Insecta WHOLE 2.55 Grzimek,B…
Spermophilus WHOLE 2.22 Grzimek,B…
Animalia WHOLE 2.00 Reid,F., …
Leporidae WHOLE 1.78 Grzimek,B…
Squamata WHOLE 1.54 Smith,A. …
Serpentes WHOLE 1.03 Smith,A. …
Aves EGGS 0.89 Grzimek,B…
Oligochaeta WHOLE 0.51 Smith,A. …
Magnoliopsida FRUIT 0.26 Smith,A. …

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 Mustela erminea.
Trait Selected Value All Value(s) Reference(s)
Dietary category: Eisenberg 1981 Carnivore Carnivore A. R. Fri…
Dietary category: Miljutin 2009 Animalivore Animalivore A. R. Fri…
Locomotion: Eisenberg 1981 Terrestrial Terrestrial John L. G…
Temporal habits arrhythmic arrhythmic John L. G…

Table 3. List of Standard Measurements for Mustela erminea.
Measurement Location Unit n Total n Unknown n Female n Male Min Mean Max SD Reference(s)
Body Mass (BM) nan g - - - - - 284 - - Juhn, M.,…
Body Mass (BM) nan g 9 9 - - - 131.57 - - Engelman,…
Body Mass (BM) nan g - - - - 42 - 538 - Freudenth…
Head-Body Length (HBL) nan mm - - - - - 190.05 - - Engelman,…
Occipital condyle width (OCW) nan mm 9 9 - - - 10.84 - - Engelman,…

Table 4. List of other Measurements b. for Mustela erminea.
Measurement Location Unit n Total n Unknown n Female n Male Min Mean Max SD Reference(s)
OPD (l) n/a 2 2 - - - 17 - - Evans, Al…
OPD (u) n/a 2 2 - - - 21 - - Evans, Al…
brainmass nan g - - - - - 5 - - Engelman,…
skull_length nan mm - - - - - 34 - - Engelman,…
BMR (kJ/h) nan kJ/h - - - - - 6 - - McNab, B.…
femur circumference nan mm - - - - - 8 - - Nelson, A…
femur diameter nan mm - - - - - 2 - - Nelson, A…
humerus circumference nan mm - - - - - 7 - - Nelson, A…
humerus diameter nan mm - - - - - 2 - - Nelson, A…
neck length nan mm - - - - - 36 - - Nelson, A…
BMR,mlO2/h nan mlO2/h 3 3 - - - 337 - - Genoud, M…
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 Mustela erminea.
Taxon Reference Match Status
Mustela erminea McNab,B. K., 1986, The influence of food habits on the energetics of eutherian mammals, Ecological Monographs 1: Exact Taxon match Verified - Accepted
Mustela erminea Gittleman,J. L., 1985, Carnivore body size: ecological and taxonomic correlates, Oecologia 1: Exact Taxon match Verified - Accepted
Mustela erminea Friscia,AR, 2006, An ecomorphological analysis of extant small carnivorans, Journal of zoology 1: Exact Taxon match Verified - Accepted
Mustela erminea 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
Mustela erminea Evans, Alistair R., Gregory P. Wilson, Mikael Fortelius, and Jukka Jernvall. “High-Level Similarity of Dentitions in Carnivorans and Rodents.” Nature 445, no. 7123 (December 13, 2006): 78–81. doi:10.1038/nature05433. 1: Exact Taxon match Verified - Accepted
Mustela erminea Reid,F., 2006, Peterson field guide to mammals of North America, 1: Exact Taxon match Verified - Accepted
Mustela erminea Nowak,R. M., 1991, Walker's mammals of the world, 1: Exact Taxon match Verified - Accepted
Mustela erminea Grzimek,B., 2003, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Mammals I-V, 1: Exact Taxon match Verified - Accepted
Mustela erminea Smith,A. T., 2010, A guide to the mammals of China, 1: Exact Taxon match Verified - Accepted
Mustela erminea Nowak,R. M., 1991, Walker's mammals of the world, 1: Exact Taxon match Verified - Accepted
Mustela erminea 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
Mustela erminea 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
Mustela erminea 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
Mustela erminea 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
Mustela erminea 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
Mustela erminea 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
Mustela erminea 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
Mustela erminea 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

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