MammalBase - Accepted taxon: Wallabia bicolor

Accepted taxon: Wallabia bicolor
Taxon:	Wallabia bicolor
Rank:	Species
Higher Classification:	DIPROTODONTIA \| MACROPODIFORMES \| Macropodidae \| Macropodinae \| Wallabia
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 Wallabia bicolor diet.
CF (Crude Fibre) 24, ASH (Ash contents) 9, NFE (Nitrogen-Free-Extract) 53, CP (Crude Protein) 11, EE (Ether Extract) 3. 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 Wallabia bicolor.
TSN Complete name	Part	Ratio ^a.	Reference(s)
Magnoliopsida	LEAF	45.00	Damuth, J…
Magnoliopsida	SHOOT	20.00	Damuth, J…
Pteridophyta	LEAF	15.00	Grzimek,B…
Cyperaceae	LEAF	10.00	Grzimek,B…
Poaceae	STEM	5.00	Grzimek,B…
Lilianae	STEM	5.00	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 Wallabia bicolor.
Trait	Selected Value	All Value(s)	Reference(s)
Dietary category: Eisenberg 1981	Herbivore-Browser	Herbivore-Browser,Herbivore-Mixed feeder	Arman, S.…
Dietary category: Miljutin 2009	Herbivore	Herbivore	Arman, S.…

Table 3. List of Standard Measurements for Wallabia bicolor.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	1	1	-	-	-	12,200	-	-	Engelman,…
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	-	-	-	-	8,949	-	32,000	-	Freudenth…
Head-Body Length (HBL)	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	697	-	-	Engelman,…
Occipital condyle width (OCW)	nan	mm	1	1	-	-	-	25.5	-	-	Engelman,…

Table 4. List of other Measurements ^b. for Wallabia bicolor.
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	-	-	-	-	-	119	-	-	Engelman,…
femur circumference	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	46	-	-	Nelson, A…
neck length	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	44	-	-	Nelson, A…

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

Table 5. List of Data Sources for Wallabia bicolor.
Taxon	Reference	Match	Status
Wallabia bicolor	Nowak,R. M., 1991, Walker's mammals of the world,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Wallabia bicolor	Johnson,CN, 2004, Extinctions of herbivorous mammals in the late Pleistocene of Australia in relation to their feeding ecology: No evidence for environmental change as cause of extinction, Austral Ecology	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Wallabia bicolor	Symon,DE, 1986, A survey of Solanum prickles and marsupial herbivory in Australia, Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Wallabia bicolor	Smith,J. A., 2009, Macropod nutrition, Veterinary Clinics of North America: Exotic Animal Practice	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Wallabia bicolor	Turner,J., 2004, Mammals of Australia,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Wallabia bicolor	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
Wallabia bicolor	Grzimek,B., 2003, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Mammals I-V,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Wallabia bicolor	Arman, S.D. and Prideaux, G.J., 2015. Dietary classification of extant kangaroos and their relatives (Marsupialia: Macropodoidea). Austral ecology, 40(8), pp.909-922.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Wallabia bicolor	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
Wallabia bicolor	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
Wallabia bicolor	Lundgren, E.J., Schowanek, S.D., Rowan, J., Middleton, O., Pedersen, R.Ø., Wallach, A.D., Ramp, D., Davis, M., Sandom, C.J. and Svenning, J.C., 2021. Functional traits of the world’s late Quaternary large-bodied avian and mammalian herbivores. Scientific data, 8(1), p.17.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Wallabia bicolor	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
Wallabia bicolor	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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