MammalBase - Accepted taxon: Echymipera kalubu

Accepted taxon: Echymipera kalubu
Taxon:	Echymipera kalubu
Rank:	Species
Higher Classification:	PERAMELEMORPHIA \| Peramelidae \| Echymiperinae \| Echymipera
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 Echymipera kalubu diet.
CF (Crude Fibre) 9, ASH (Ash contents) 5, NFE (Nitrogen-Free-Extract) 43, CP (Crude Protein) 30, EE (Ether Extract) 13. 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 Echymipera kalubu.
TSN Complete name	Part	Ratio ^a.	Reference(s)
Magnoliopsida	FRUIT	41.67	Grzimek,B…
Insecta	WHOLE	25.00	Grzimek,B…
Oligochaeta	WHOLE	16.67	Nowak,R. …
Magnoliopsida	SEED	8.33	Grzimek,B…
Scarabaeoidea	LARVAE	8.33	Nowak,R. …

^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 Echymipera kalubu.
Trait	Selected Value	All Value(s)	Reference(s)
Dietary category: Miljutin 2009	Frugivore	Animalivore, Frugivore	– Weisbecker, V., Beck, R., Guillerme, T., Harrington, A., Lange-Hodgson, L., Lee, M., Mardon, K., Phillips, M. 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: Biological Sciences. 378(1880), pp.None. Available at: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0085.
Locomotion: Eisenberg 1981	Terrestrial	Terrestrial	– Weisbecker, V., Beck, R., Guillerme, T., Harrington, A., Lange-Hodgson, L., Lee, M., Mardon, K., Phillips, M. 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: Biological Sciences. 378(1880), pp.None. Available at: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0085.

Table 3. List of Standard Measurements for Echymipera kalubu.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	-	-	-	-	405	-	2,000	-	Freudenth…
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	4	4	-	-	-	772.25	-	-	Engelman,…
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	-	-	-	-	-	975	-	-	Meiri, S.…
Head-Body Length (HBL)	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	329.5	-	-	Engelman,…
Occipital condyle width (OCW)	nan	mm	4	4	-	-	-	15.66	-	-	Engelman,…

Table 4. List of other Measurements ^b. for Echymipera kalubu.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
brainmass	nan	g	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	Engelman,…
skull_length	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	78	-	-	Engelman,…
BMR,mlO2/h	nan	mlO2/h	1	1	-	-	-	344	-	-	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 Echymipera kalubu.
Taxon	Reference	Match	Status
Echymipera kalubu	Nowak,R. M., 1991, Walker's mammals of the world,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Echymipera kaluba	Grzimek,B., 2003, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Mammals I-V,	51: Name variant or misspelling of the taxon	Verified - Accepted
Echymipera kalubu	Nowak,R. M., 1991, Walker's mammals of the world,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Echymipera kalubu	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
Echymipera kalubu	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
Echymipera kalubu	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
Echymipera kalubu	Meiri, S., Raia, P. and Phillimore, A.B., 2011. Slaying dragons: limited evidence for unusual body size evolution on islands. Journal of Biogeography, 38(1), pp.89-100.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Echymipera kalubu	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
Echymipera kalubu	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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