MammalBase - Accepted taxon: Artibeus lituratus

Accepted taxon: Artibeus lituratus
Taxon:	Artibeus lituratus
Rank:	Species
Higher Classification:	CHIROPTERA \| Phyllostomidae \| Stenodermatinae \| Stenodermatini \| Artibeus \| Artibeus
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 Artibeus lituratus diet.
CF (Crude Fibre) 10, ASH (Ash contents) 4, NFE (Nitrogen-Free-Extract) 73, CP (Crude Protein) 9, EE (Ether Extract) 4. 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 Artibeus lituratus.
TSN Complete name	Part	Ratio ^a.	Reference(s)
Ficus	FRUIT	32.09	Damuth, J…
Magnoliopsida	FRUIT	21.97	Damuth, J…
Cecropia	FRUIT	17.41	Passos,F.…
Magnoliopsida	NECTAR/JUICE	8.37	Damuth, J…
Magnoliopsida	POLLEN	5.58	Grzimek,B…
Insecta	WHOLE	3.84	Damuth, J…
Solanaceae	FRUIT	3.02	Stevens, …
Solanum scuticum	FRUIT	1.86	Passos,F.…
Solanum granuloso-leprosum	FRUIT	1.70	Stevens, …
Piper	FRUIT	1.68	Stevens, …
Cecropia pachystachya	FRUIT	1.66	Stevens, …
Coleoptera	WHOLE	0.33	Pellón, J…
Arthropoda	WHOLE	0.22	Pellón, J…
Magnoliophyta	FRUIT	0.14	Stevens, …
Diptera	WHOLE	0.11	Pellón, 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 Artibeus lituratus.
Trait	Selected Value	All Value(s)	Reference(s)
Dietary category: Eisenberg 1981	Frugivore-Granivore	Frugivore-Granivore,Frugivore-Herbivore	Arriaga-F…
Dietary category: Miljutin 2009	Frugivore	Animalivore,Frugivore	Arriaga-F…
Locomotion: Eisenberg 1981	Volant	Volant	Brian K. …
Temporal habits	nocturnal	nocturnal	Rodrigo A…

Table 3. List of Standard Measurements for Artibeus lituratus.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
Body Mass (BM)	Brazil	g	-	-	-	-	67	88.5	110	-	Paglia,A.…
Body Mass (BM)	La Peregrina Canyon, Tamaulipas, Mexico	g	18	18	-	-	-	68.5	-	-	Arriaga-F…
Body Mass (BM)	Central America	g	-	-	-	-	-	63.8	-	-	Robert M.…

Table 4. List of other Measurements ^b. for Artibeus lituratus.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
Skull length	Grenada	mm	-	-	-	-	-	31	-	-	Molinari,…
Skull length	Grenadines	mm	-	-	-	-	-	31	-	-	Molinari,…
Skull length	Trinidad	mm	-	-	-	-	-	31	-	-	Molinari,…
Skull length	Amazonian Peru	mm	-	-	-	-	-	31	-	-	Molinari,…
Skull length	French Guiana	mm	-	-	-	-	-	31	-	-	Molinari,…
Skull length	N South America	mm	-	-	-	-	-	31	-	-	Molinari,…
Skull length	Oaxaca, Honduras	mm	-	-	-	-	-	30	-	-	Molinari,…
Skull length	Paraguay	mm	-	-	-	-	-	32	-	-	Molinari,…
Skull length	Peru	mm	-	-	-	-	-	32	-	-	Molinari,…
Skull length	Rio Grande do Sul	mm	-	-	-	-	-	32	-	-	Molinari,…

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

Table 5. List of Data Sources for Artibeus lituratus.
Taxon	Reference	Match	Status
Artibeus lituratus	Cakenberghe,V. V., 2002, Evolutionary relationships between cranial shape and diet in bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera), Topics in functional and ecological vertebrate morphology	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Artibeus lituratus	McNab,B. K., 1986, The influence of food habits on the energetics of eutherian mammals, Ecological Monographs	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Artibeus lituratus	Brigham,R. M., 1991, Prey detection, dietary niche breadth, and body size in bats: why are aerial insectivorous bats so small?, The American Naturalist	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Artibeus lituratus	Kalko,E. K. V., 2001, Neotropical bats in the canopy: diversity, community structure, and implications for conservation, Plant Ecology	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Artibeus lituratus	Cruz-Neto,A. P., 2001, Diet, phylogeny, and basal metabolic rate in phyllostomid bats, Zoology	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Artibeus lituratus	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
Artibeus lituratus	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
Artibeus lituratus	MedellÃƒÂn,R. A., 1994, Mammal diversity and conservation in the Selva Lacandona, Chiapas, Mexico, Conservation Biology	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Artibeus lituratus	SÃƒÂnchezÃ¢â‚¬ÂCordero,V. ÃƒÂ., 2008, Elevation gradients of diversity for rodents and bats in Oaxaca, Mexico, Global Ecology and Biogeography	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Artibeus lituratus	Passos,F. C., 2003, Frugivoria em morcegos (Mammalia, Chiroptera) no Parque Estadual Intervales, sudeste do Brasil, Revista Brasileira de Zoologia	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Artibeus lituratus	Freeman,P. W., 1998, Form, function, and evolution in skulls and teeth of bats,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Artibeus lituratus	Grzimek,B., 2003, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Mammals I-V,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Artibeus lituratus	Passos,F. C., 2003, Frugivoria em morcegos (Mammalia, Chiroptera) no Parque Estadual Intervales, sudeste do Brasil, Revista Brasileira de Zoologia	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Artibeus lituratus	Stevens, R.D. and Amarilla-Stevens, H.N., 2021. Dietary patterns of phyllostomid bats in interior Atlantic Forest of eastern Paraguay. Journal of Mammalogy.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Artibeus lituratus	Arriaga-Flores, J.C., Castro-Arellano, I., Moreno-Valdez, A. and Correa-Sandoval, A., 2012. Temporal niche overlap of a riparian forest bat assemblage in subtropical Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Mastozoología (Nueva Época), 2(1), pp.3-17.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Artibeus lituratus	Pellón, J.J., Medina-Espinoza, E.F., Lim, B.K., Cornejo, F. and Medellín, R.A., 2022. Eat what you can, when you can: relatively high arthropod consumption by frugivorous bats in Amazonian Peru. Mammalian Biology, pp.1-8.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Artibeus lituratus	Gaudioso, P.J., Pérez, M.J., Gamboa Alurralde, S., Toledo, N. and Díaz, M.M., 2023. Exploration of the morphology and functional implications of the forelimb in bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) from the Neotropical region. Zoomorphology, pp.1-17.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Artibeus lituratus	Molinari, J., A global assessment of the 'island rule' in bats based on functionally distinct measures of body size. Journal of Biogeography.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Artibeus lituratus	Herberstein, M.E., McLean, D.J., Lowe, E., Wolff, J.O., Khan, M.K., Smith, K., Allen, A.P., Bulbert, M., Buzatto, B.A., Eldridge, M.D. and Falster, D., 2022. AnimalTraits-a curated animal trait database for body mass, metabolic rate and brain size. Scientific Data, 9(1), p.265.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted

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