MammalBase - Accepted taxon: Procyon cancrivorus

Accepted taxon: Procyon cancrivorus
Taxon:	Procyon cancrivorus
Rank:	Species
Higher Classification:	CARNIVORA \| CANIFORMIA \| Procyonidae \| Procyon
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 Procyon cancrivorus diet.
CF (Crude Fibre) 3, ASH (Ash contents) 20, NFE (Nitrogen-Free-Extract) 15, CP (Crude Protein) 52, 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 Procyon cancrivorus.
TSN Complete name	Part	Ratio ^a.	Reference(s)
Didelphis	WHOLE	33.33	Rocha-Men…
Anura	WHOLE	7.74	Grzimek,B…
Brachyura	WHOLE	6.15	Damuth, J…
Mollusca	WHOLE	5.33	Damuth, J…
Osteichthyes	WHOLE	5.17	Damuth, J…
Magnoliopsida	FRUIT	3.88	Damuth, J…
Insecta	WHOLE	3.42	Damuth, J…
Lacertilia	WHOLE	2.78	Gatti, A.…
Amphibia	WHOLE	2.44	Damuth, J…
Caridea	WHOLE	2.38	Grzimek,B…
Allagoptera arenaria	FRUIT	2.02	Gatti, A.…
Coleoptera	WHOLE	1.96	Gatti, A.…
Testudines	EGGS	1.79	Grzimek,B…
Orthoptera	WHOLE	1.77	Gatti, A.…
Ocypode quadrata	WHOLE	1.70	Gatti, A.…
Cereus fernambucensis	FRUIT	1.64	Gatti, A.…
Colubridae	WHOLE	1.58	Gatti, A.…
Myrtaceae	FRUIT	1.52	Gatti, A.…
Marlierea	FRUIT	1.45	Gatti, A.…
Rubiaceae	FRUIT	1.39	Gatti, A.…
Scaevola plumieri	FRUIT	1.33	Gatti, A.…
Vertebrata	WHOLE	1.14	Gatti, A.…
Schinus terebinthifolius	FRUIT	1.07	Gatti, A.…
Ameiva ameiva	WHOLE	0.95	Gatti, A.…
Aves	WHOLE	0.88	Gatti, A.…
Eugenia	FRUIT	0.82	Gatti, A.…
Mabuya	WHOLE	0.76	Gatti, A.…
Cavia fulgida	WHOLE	0.69	Gatti, A.…
Psidium cattleianum	FRUIT	0.63	Gatti, A.…
Magnoliopsida	SEED	0.60	Grzimek,B…
Bothrops jararaca	WHOLE	0.44	Gatti, A.…
Rodentia	WHOLE	0.38	Gatti, A.…
Oryzomys	WHOLE	0.32	Gatti, A.…
Rattus rattus	WHOLE	0.25	Gatti, A.…
Didelphimorphia	WHOLE	0.19	Gatti, A.…
Dasypodidae	WHOLE	0.13	Gatti, 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 Procyon cancrivorus.
Trait	Selected Value	All Value(s)	Reference(s)
Dietary category: Miljutin 2009	Frugivore	Frugivore	– John G. Robinson, Kent H. Redford, 1986, 'Body Size, Diet, and Population Density of Neotropical Forest Mammals', The American Naturalist, vol. 128, no. 5, p. 665, 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
Dietary category: Eisenberg 1981	Frugivore-omnivore	Frugivore-omnivore	– John G. Robinson, Kent H. Redford, 1986, 'Body Size, Diet, and Population Density of Neotropical Forest Mammals', The American Naturalist, vol. 128, no. 5, p. 665, 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
Locomotion: Eisenberg 1981	Scansonal	Scansonal	– 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 Procyon cancrivorus.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	-	-	-	-	-	6,932	-	-	Juhn, M.,…
Body Mass (BM)	Brazil	g	-	-	-	-	-	5,400	-	-	Paglia,A.…
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	-	-	-	-	1,160	-	15,000	-	Freudenth…

Table 4. List of other Measurements ^b. for Procyon cancrivorus.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
BMR (kJ/h)	nan	kJ/h	-	-	-	-	-	9	-	-	McNab, B.…
femur circumference	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	35	-	-	Nelson, A…
humerus circumference	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	29	-	-	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 Procyon cancrivorus.
Taxon	Reference	Match	Status
Procyon cancrivorus	Robinson,John G., 1986, Body Size, Diet, and Population Density of Neotropical Forest Mammals, The American Naturalist	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Procyon cancrivorus	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
Procyon cancrivorus	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
Procyon cancrivorus	Grzimek,B., 2003, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Mammals I-V,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Procyon cancrivorus	Gatti, A., Bianchi, R., Rosa, C.R.X. and Mendes, S.L., 2006. Diet of two sympatric carnivores, Cerdocyon thous and Procyon cancrivorus, in a restinga area of Espirito Santo State, Brazil. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 22(2), pp.227-230.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Procyon cancrivorus	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
Procyon cancrivorus	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
Procyon cancrivorus	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
Procyon cancrivorus	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
Procyon cancrivorous	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).	51: Name variant or misspelling of the taxon	Verified - Accepted
Procyon cancrivorus	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
Procyon cancrivorus	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
Procyon cancrivorus	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
Procyon cancrivorus	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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