MammalBase - Accepted taxon: Euphractus sexcinctus

Accepted taxon: Euphractus sexcinctus
Taxon:	Euphractus sexcinctus
Rank:	Species
Higher Classification:	CINGULATA \| Dasypodidae \| Euphractinae \| Euphractus
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 Euphractus sexcinctus diet.
CF (Crude Fibre) 10, ASH (Ash contents) 10, NFE (Nitrogen-Free-Extract) 20, CP (Crude Protein) 46, EE (Ether Extract) 14. 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 Euphractus sexcinctus.
TSN Complete name	Part	Ratio ^a.	Reference(s)
Magnoliopsida	SHOOT	28.33	Damuth, J…
Rodentia	WHOLE	25.00	Grzimek,B…
Insecta	WHOLE	12.50	Damuth, J…
Vertebrata	WHOLE	10.83	Damuth, J…
Arthropoda	WHOLE	7.50	Grzimek,B…
Formicidae	WHOLE	6.67	Damuth, J…
Brachycera	LARVAE	5.00	Nowak,R. …
Vertebrata	CARRION	4.17	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 Euphractus sexcinctus.
Trait	Selected Value	All Value(s)	Reference(s)
Dietary category: Eisenberg 1981	Insectivore-Omnivore	Insectivore,Insectivore-Omnivore	Brian K. …
Dietary category: Miljutin 2009	Animalivore	Animalivore	Brian K. …
Locomotion: Eisenberg 1981	Semifossorial	Semifossorial	Paglia,A.…

Table 3. List of Standard Measurements for Euphractus sexcinctus.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	2	2	-	-	-	4,000	-	-	Engelman,…
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	14	-	-	14	-	4,380	-	-	Nelson, A…
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	14	-	14	-	-	4,450	-	-	Nelson, A…
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	-	-	-	-	2,000	-	8,190	-	Freudenth…
Body Mass (BM)	Brazil	g	-	-	-	-	-	5,400	-	-	Paglia,A.…
Head-Body Length (HBL)	nan	mm	14	-	-	14	-	477.2	-	-	Nelson, A…
Head-Body Length (HBL)	nan	mm	14	-	14	-	-	479	-	-	Nelson, A…
Head-Body Length (HBL)	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	453	-	-	Engelman,…
Occipital condyle width (OCW)	nan	mm	2	2	-	-	-	28.71	-	-	Engelman,…

Table 4. List of other Measurements ^b. for Euphractus sexcinctus.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
brainmass	nan	g	-	-	-	-	-	34	-	-	Engelman,…
skull_length	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	113	-	-	Engelman,…
BMR (kJ/h)	nan	kJ/h	-	-	-	-	-	25	-	-	McNab, B.…
femur circumference	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	42	-	-	Nelson, A…
femur diameter	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	15	-	-	Nelson, A…
BMR,mlO2/h	nan	mlO2/h	2	2	-	-	-	1,237	-	-	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 Euphractus sexcinctus.
Taxon	Reference	Match	Status
Euphractus sexcinctus	Robinson,John G., 1986, Body Size, Diet, and Population Density of Neotropical Forest Mammals, The American Naturalist	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Euphractus sexcinctus	McNab,B. K., 1986, The influence of food habits on the energetics of eutherian mammals, Ecological Monographs	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Euphractus sexcinctus	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
Euphractus sexcinctus	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
Euphractus sexcinctus	Nowak,R. M., 1991, Walker's mammals of the world,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Euphractus sexcinctus	Grzimek,B., 2003, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Mammals I-V,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Euphractus sexcinctus	Nowak,R. M., 1991, Walker's mammals of the world,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Euphractus sexcinctus	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
Euphractus sexcinctus	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
Euphractus sexcinctus	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
Euphractus sexcinctus	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
Euphractus sexcinctus	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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