MammalBase - Accepted taxon: Potos flavus

Accepted taxon: Potos flavus
Taxon:	Potos flavus
Rank:	Species
Higher Classification:	CARNIVORA \| CANIFORMIA \| Procyonidae \| Potos
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 Potos flavus diet.
CF (Crude Fibre) 10, ASH (Ash contents) 5, NFE (Nitrogen-Free-Extract) 52, CP (Crude Protein) 23, 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 Potos flavus.
TSN Complete name	Part	Ratio ^a.	Reference(s)
Magnoliopsida	FRUIT	36.19	Damuth, J…
Insecta	WHOLE	19.68	Damuth, J…
Magnoliopsida	EXUDATES	17.94	Grzimek,B…
Ficus	FRUIT	10.00	Damuth, J…
Aves	EGGS	4.76	Grzimek,B…
Magnoliopsida	NECTAR/JUICE	3.33	Damuth, J…
Vertebrata	WHOLE	3.33	Nowak,R. …
Aves	WHOLE	3.17	Grzimek,B…
Mammalia	WHOLE	1.59	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 Potos flavus.
Trait	Selected Value	All Value(s)	Reference(s)
Dietary category: Eisenberg 1981	Frugivore-omnivore	Frugivore-Granivore,Frugivore-omnivore	Brian K. …
Dietary category: Miljutin 2009	Frugivore	Frugivore	A. R. Fri…
Locomotion: Eisenberg 1981	Arboreal	Arboreal	Brian K. …
Temporal habits	nocturnal	nocturnal	John L. G…

Table 3. List of Standard Measurements for Potos flavus.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
Body Mass (BM)	Brazil	g	-	-	-	-	-	2,600	-	-	Paglia,A.…
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	13	13	-	-	-	2,144.62	-	-	Engelman,…
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	-	-	-	-	1,080	-	5,000	-	Freudenth…
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	-	-	-	-	-	2,442	-	-	Juhn, M.,…
Head-Body Length (HBL)	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	483	-	-	Engelman,…
Occipital condyle width (OCW)	nan	mm	13	13	-	-	-	19.4	-	-	Engelman,…

Table 4. List of other Measurements ^b. for Potos flavus.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
brainmass	nan	g	-	-	-	-	-	33	-	-	Engelman,…
skull_length	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	77	-	-	Engelman,…
BMR (kJ/h)	nan	kJ/h	-	-	-	-	-	15	-	-	McNab, B.…
femur circumference	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	22	-	-	Nelson, A…
femur diameter	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	8	-	-	Nelson, A…
humerus circumference	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	21	-	-	Nelson, A…
humerus diameter	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	6	-	-	Nelson, A…
neck length	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	47	-	-	Nelson, A…
BMR,mlO2/h	nan	mlO2/h	2	2	-	-	-	758	-	-	Genoud, M…
BMR,mlO2/h	nan	mlO2/h	2	2	-	-	-	884	-	-	Genoud, M…
BMR,mlO2/h	nan	mlO2/h	1	1	-	-	-	737	-	-	Genoud, M…
relative blade length (RBL)	nan	unitless	-	-	-	-	-	0	-	-	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 Potos flavus.
Taxon	Reference	Match	Status
Potos favus	Robinson,John G., 1986, Body Size, Diet, and Population Density of Neotropical Forest Mammals, The American Naturalist	51: Name variant or misspelling of the taxon	Verified - Accepted
Potos flavus	McNab,B. K., 1986, The influence of food habits on the energetics of eutherian mammals, Ecological Monographs	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Potos flavus	Soligo,C., 2006, Adaptive origins of primates revisited, Journal of human evolution	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Potos flavus	Gittleman,J. L., 1985, Carnivore body size: ecological and taxonomic correlates, Oecologia	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Potos flavus	Friscia,AR, 2006, An ecomorphological analysis of extant small carnivorans, Journal of zoology	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Potos flavus	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
Potos flavus	MedellÃƒÂn,R. A., 1994, Mammal diversity and conservation in the Selva Lacandona, Chiapas, Mexico, Conservation Biology	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Potos flavus	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
Potos flavus	Nowak,R. M., 1991, Walker's mammals of the world,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Potos flavus	Grzimek,B., 2003, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Mammals I-V,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Potos flavus	Nowak,R. M., 1991, Walker's mammals of the world,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Potos flavus	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
Potos flavus	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
Potos flavus	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
Potos flavus	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
Potos flavus	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
Potos flavus	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
Potos flavus	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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