MammalBase - Accepted taxon: Prolemur simus

Accepted taxon: Prolemur simus
Taxon:	Prolemur simus
Rank:	Species
Higher Classification:	PRIMATES \| STREPSIRRHINI \| LEMURIFORMES \| Lemuroidea \| Lemuridae \| Prolemur
Reference:	Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), JHU Press, 2005.

Table 1. List of Diet Items for Prolemur simus.
TSN Complete name	Part	Ratio ^a.	Reference(s)
There are no Diet Items available.

^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 Prolemur simus.
Trait	Selected Value	All Value(s)	Reference(s)
Locomotion: Eisenberg 1981	Arboreal	Arboreal	– Christophe Soligo, Robert D. Martin, 2006, 'Adaptive origins of primates revisited', Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 414-430

Table 3. List of Standard Measurements for Prolemur simus.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	-	-	-	-	1,000	-	2,500	-	Freudenth…
Body Mass (BM)	Talatakely, Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar	g	2	2	-	-	-	2,450	-	-	Tan,C. L.…

Table 4. List of other Measurements ^b. for Prolemur simus.
Measurement	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
Dirichlet normal energy (DNE)	-	2	2	-	-	-	221	-	-	Bunn, Jon…
orientation patch count rotated (OPCR)	n/a	2	2	-	-	-	74	-	-	Bunn, Jon…
relief index (RFI)	n/a	2	2	-	-	-	1	-	-	Bunn, Jon…
shearing quotient (SQ)	-	2	2	-	-	-	8	-	-	Bunn, Jon…
shearing ratio (SR)	-	2	2	-	-	-	3	-	-	Bunn, Jon…

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

Table 5. List of Data Sources for Prolemur simus.
Taxon	Reference	Match	Status
Hapalemur simus	Soligo,C., 2006, Adaptive origins of primates revisited, Journal of human evolution	50: Synonym	Verified - Accepted
Hapalemur simus	Tan,C. L., 1999, Group composition, home range size, and diet of three sympatric bamboo lemur species (genus Hapalemur) in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar, International Journal of Primatology	50: Synonym	Verified - Accepted
Prolemur simus	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
Prolemur simus	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
Prolemur simus	Rowan, J., Beaudrot, L., Franklin, J., Reed, K.E., Smail, I.E., Zamora, A. and Kamilar, J.M., 2020. Geographically divergent evolutionary and ecological legacies shape mammal biodiversity in the global tropics and subtropics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(3), pp.1559-1565.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted

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