MammalBase - Accepted taxon: Tamandua tetradactyla

Accepted taxon: Tamandua tetradactyla
Taxon:	Tamandua tetradactyla
Rank:	Species
Higher Classification:	PILOSA \| VERMILINGUA \| Myrmecophagidae \| Tamandua
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 Tamandua tetradactyla diet.
CF (Crude Fibre) 5, ASH (Ash contents) 2, NFE (Nitrogen-Free-Extract) 18, CP (Crude Protein) 41, EE (Ether Extract) 17. 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 Tamandua tetradactyla.
TSN Complete name	Part	Ratio ^a.	Reference(s)
Formicidae	WHOLE	51.19	Damuth, J…
Termitidae	WHOLE	41.67	Damuth, J…
Apoidea	WHOLE	4.76	Grzimek,B…
Magnoliopsida	EXUDATES	2.38	Grzimek,B…

^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 Tamandua tetradactyla.
Trait	Selected Value	All Value(s)	Reference(s)
Dietary category: Eisenberg 1981	Myrmecophage	Insectivore,Myrmecophage	Brian K. …
Dietary category: Miljutin 2009	Animalivore	Animalivore	Brian K. …
Locomotion: Eisenberg 1981	Scansonal	Scansonal	Paglia,A.…

Table 3. List of Standard Measurements for Tamandua tetradactyla.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
Body Mass (BM)	Brazil	g	-	-	-	-	-	5,200	-	-	Paglia,A.…
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	3	3	-	-	-	3,516.67	-	-	Engelman,…
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	-	-	-	-	2,540	-	8,500	-	Freudenth…
Head-Body Length (HBL)	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	617.1	-	-	Engelman,…
Occipital condyle width (OCW)	nan	mm	3	3	-	-	-	22.32	-	-	Engelman,…

Table 4. List of other Measurements ^b. for Tamandua tetradactyla.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
brainmass	nan	g	-	-	-	-	-	28	-	-	Engelman,…
skull_length	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	122	-	-	Engelman,…
BMR (kJ/h)	nan	kJ/h	-	-	-	-	-	18	-	-	McNab, B.…
femur circumference	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	30	-	-	Nelson, A…
humerus circumference	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	35	-	-	Nelson, A…
neck length	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	58	-	-	Nelson, A…
BMR,mlO2/h	nan	mlO2/h	2	2	-	-	-	886	-	-	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 Tamandua tetradactyla.
Taxon	Reference	Match	Status
Tamandua tetradactyla	Robinson,John G., 1986, Body Size, Diet, and Population Density of Neotropical Forest Mammals, The American Naturalist	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Tamandua tetradactyla	McNab,B. K., 1986, The influence of food habits on the energetics of eutherian mammals, Ecological Monographs	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Tamandua tetradactyla	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
Tamandua tetradactyla	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
Tamandua tetradactyla	Grzimek,B., 2003, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Mammals I-V,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Tamandua tetradactyla	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
Tamandua tetradactyla	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
Tamandua tetradactyla	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
Tamandua tetradactyla	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
Tamandua tetradactyla	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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