MammalBase - Accepted taxon: Tupaia minor

Accepted taxon: Tupaia minor
Taxon:	Tupaia minor
Rank:	Species
Higher Classification:	SCANDENTIA \| Tupaiidae \| Tupaia
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 Tupaia minor diet.
CF (Crude Fibre) 8, ASH (Ash contents) 5, NFE (Nitrogen-Free-Extract) 38, CP (Crude Protein) 36, 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 Tupaia minor.
TSN Complete name	Part	Ratio ^a.	Reference(s)
Magnoliopsida	FRUIT	28.57	Grzimek,B…
Gryllidae	WHOLE	23.81	Grzimek,B…
Araneae	WHOLE	19.05	Grzimek,B…
Coleoptera	WHOLE	14.29	Grzimek,B…
Lepidoptera	LARVAE	9.52	Grzimek,B…
Arthropoda	WHOLE	4.76	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 Tupaia minor.
Trait	Selected Value	All Value(s)	Reference(s)
Dietary category: Eisenberg 1981	Frugivore-omnivore	Frugivore-omnivore	Jonathan …
Dietary category: Miljutin 2009	Frugivore	Frugivore	Jonathan …
Locomotion: Eisenberg 1981	Arboreal	Arboreal	Christoph…

Table 3. List of Standard Measurements for Tupaia minor.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	4	-	-	4	-	56.5	-	-	Nelson, A…
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	6	6	-	-	-	54	-	-	Engelman,…
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	2	-	-	2	-	52.8	-	-	Nelson, A…
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	-	-	-	-	30	-	90	-	Freudenth…
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	2	-	2	-	-	74	-	-	Nelson, A…
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	2	-	2	-	-	67	-	-	Nelson, A…
Head-Body Length (HBL)	nan	mm	2	-	2	-	-	133.5	-	-	Nelson, A…
Head-Body Length (HBL)	nan	mm	4	-	-	4	-	116.7	-	-	Nelson, A…
Head-Body Length (HBL)	nan	mm	4	4	-	-	-	131	-	-	Engelman,…
Head-Body Length (HBL)	nan	mm	2	-	-	2	-	145.5	-	-	Nelson, A…
Head-Body Length (HBL)	nan	mm	2	-	2	-	-	139.5	-	-	Nelson, A…
Occipital condyle width (OCW)	nan	mm	6	6	-	-	-	8.31	-	-	Engelman,…

Table 4. List of other Measurements ^b. for Tupaia minor.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
2dm1		-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	Boyer, Do…
3dm2		-	-	-	-	-	-	10	-	-	Boyer, Do…
m2_relief		-	1	1	-	-	-	1	-	-	Boyer, Do…
sdm2		-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	Boyer, Do…
Dirichlet normal energy (DNE)		-	2	2	-	-	-	207	-	-	Bunn, Jon…
orientation patch count rotated (OPCR)		n/a	2	2	-	-	-	56	-	-	Bunn, Jon…
relief index (RFI)		n/a	2	2	-	-	-	1	-	-	Bunn, Jon…
shearing quotient (SQ)		-	2	2	-	-	-	15	-	-	Bunn, Jon…
shearing ratio (SR)		-	2	2	-	-	-	3	-	-	Bunn, Jon…
brainmass	nan	g	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	Engelman,…
skull_length	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	31	-	-	Engelman,…
femur diameter	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	Nelson, A…
humerus diameter	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	Nelson, A…
neck length	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	10	-	-	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 Tupaia minor.
Taxon	Reference	Match	Status
Tupaia minor	Bunn,J. M., 2011, Comparing Dirichlet normal surface energy of tooth crowns, a new technique of molar shape quantification for dietary inference, with previous methods in isolation and in combination, American Journal of Physical Anthropology	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Tupaia minor	Soligo,C., 2006, Adaptive origins of primates revisited, Journal of human evolution	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Tupaia minor	Endo,H., 2003, Morphological adaptation of the skull for various behaviors in the tree shrews, Journal of veterinary medical science	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Tupaia minor	Sargis,E. J., 2004, New views on tree shrews: the role of tupaiids in primate supraordinal relationships, Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Tupaia minor	Boyer, Doug M. Ã¢â‚¬Å“Relief Index of Second Mandibular Molars Is a Correlate of Diet Among Prosimian Primates and Other Euarchontan Mammals.Ã¢â‚¬Â Journal of Human Evolution 55, no. 6 (December 2008): 1118Ã¢â‚¬â€œ1137. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2008.08.002.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Tupaia minor	Bunn, Jonathan M., Doug M. Boyer, Yaron Lipman, Elizabeth M. St. Clair, Jukka Jernvall, and Ingrid Daubechies. Ã¢â‚¬Å“Comparing Dirichlet Normal Surface Energy of Tooth Crowns, a New Technique of Molar Shape Quantification for Dietary Inference, with Previous Methods in Isolation and in Combination.Ã¢â‚¬Â American Journal of Physical Anthropology 145, no. 2 (April 5, 2011): 247Ã¢â‚¬â€œ261. doi:10.1002/ajpa.21489.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Tupaia minor	Grzimek,B., 2003, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Mammals I-V,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Tupaia minor	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
Tupaia minor	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
Tupaia minor	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
Tupaia minor	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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