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MammalBase - Accepted taxon: Thylamys elegans

Accepted taxon: Thylamys elegans


Accepted taxon: Thylamys elegans
Taxon: Thylamys elegans
Rank: Species
Higher Classification: DIDELPHIMORPHIA | Didelphidae | Didelphinae | Thylamys
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 Thylamys elegans diet.
CF (Crude Fibre) 5, ASH (Ash contents) 7, NFE (Nitrogen-Free-Extract) 22, CP (Crude Protein) 49, EE (Ether Extract) 16. 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 Thylamys elegans.
TSN Complete name Part Ratio a. Reference(s)
Vertebrata WHOLE 25.00 Damuth, J…
Magnoliopsida FRUIT 20.00 Damuth, J…
Insecta WHOLE 20.00 Grzimek,B…
Vertebrata EGGS 20.00 Damuth, J…
Arthropoda WHOLE 15.00 Damuth, J…

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 Thylamys elegans.
Trait Selected Value All Value(s) Reference(s)
Dietary category: Eisenberg 1981 Carnivore Carnivore Douglas A…
Dietary category: Miljutin 2009 Animalivore Animalivore,Frugivore Cofre, H.…
Locomotion: Eisenberg 1981 Terrestrial Terrestrial Weisbecke…

Table 3. List of Standard Measurements for Thylamys elegans.
Measurement Location Unit n Total n Unknown n Female n Male Min Mean Max SD Reference(s)
Body Mass (BM) nan g 10 10 - - - 24.18 - - Engelman,…
Body Mass (BM) nan g - - - - 18 - 41 - Freudenth…
Body Mass (BM) Chile g - - - - - 28.9 - - Cofre, H.…
Body Mass (BM) marine preserve of Las Cruces, Chile g 3 3 - - - 24 - 8 Navarrete…
Head-Body Length (HBL) marine preserve of Las Cruces, Chile mm 3 3 - - - 167 - 71 Navarrete…
Head-Body Length (HBL) nan mm - - - - - 100 - - Engelman,…
Occipital condyle width (OCW) nan mm 10 10 - - - 6.46 - - Engelman,…
Total Length (ToL) marine preserve of Las Cruces, Chile mm 3 3 - - - 185 - 13 Navarrete…

Table 4. List of other Measurements b. for Thylamys elegans.
Measurement Location Unit n Total n Unknown n Female n Male Min Mean Max SD Reference(s)
brainmass nan g - - - - - 1 - - Engelman,…
skull_length nan mm - - - - - 32 - - Engelman,…
BMR (kJ/h) nan kJ/h - - - - - 1 - - McNab, B.…
BMR,mlO2/h nan mlO2/h 15 15 - - - 20 - - Genoud, M…
BMR,mlO2/h nan mlO2/h 12 12 - - - 43 - - Genoud, M…

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


Table 5. List of Data Sources for Thylamys elegans.
Taxon Reference Match Status
Thylamys elegans Cofre,H., 1999, Conservation status, rarity, and geographic priorities for conservation of Chilean mammals: an assessment, Biological Conservation 1: Exact Taxon match Verified - Accepted
Thylamys elegans Kelt,D. A., 1996, Community structure of desert small mammals: comparisons across four continents, Ecology 1: Exact Taxon match Verified - Accepted
Thylamys elegans Gordon,C. L., 2003, A first look at estimating body size in dentally conservative marsupials, Journal of Mammalian Evolution 1: Exact Taxon match Verified - Accepted
Thylamys elegans Ojeda,R. A., 2001, Mammals in South American drylands: faunal similarity and trophic structure, Global Ecology and Biogeography 1: Exact Taxon match Verified - Accepted
Marmosa elegans Navarrete,S. A., 1993, Predation by Norway rats in the intertidal zone of central Chile, Marine Ecology-Progress Series 52: Genus, Species = Master subfamily genus, species Verified - Accepted
Thylamys elegans 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
Thylamys elegans Grzimek,B., 2003, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Mammals I-V, 1: Exact Taxon match Verified - Accepted
Thylamys elegans Weisbecker, V., Beck, R.M., Guillerme, T., Harrington, A.R., Lange-Hodgson, L., Lee, M.S., Mardon, K. and Phillips, M.J., 2023. Multiple modes of inference reveal less phylogenetic signal in marsupial basicranial shape compared with the rest of the cranium. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 378(1880), p.20220085. 1: Exact Taxon match Verified - Accepted
Thylamys elegans 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
Thylamys elegans 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
Thylamys elegans 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
Thylamys elegans 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

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