MammalBase - Accepted taxon: Procyon lotor

Accepted taxon: Procyon lotor
Taxon:	Procyon lotor
Rank:	Species
Higher Classification:	CARNIVORA \| CANIFORMIA \| Procyonidae \| Procyon
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 Procyon lotor diet.
CF (Crude Fibre) 8, ASH (Ash contents) 6, NFE (Nitrogen-Free-Extract) 53, CP (Crude Protein) 22, EE (Ether Extract) 8. 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 Procyon lotor.
TSN Complete name	Part	Ratio ^a.	Reference(s)
Magnoliopsida	FRUIT	32.14	Damuth, J…
Poaceae	SEED	17.86	Damuth, J…
Magnoliopsida	SEED	14.29	Damuth, J…
Insecta	WHOLE	9.52	Damuth, J…
Anura	WHOLE	9.52	Damuth, J…
Astacoidea	WHOLE	8.33	Damuth, J…
Quercus	SEED	4.76	Grzimek,B…
Aves	EGGS	2.38	Grzimek,B…
Vertebrata	EGGS	1.19	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 Procyon lotor.
Trait	Selected Value	All Value(s)	Reference(s)
Dietary category: Eisenberg 1981	Frugivore-omnivore	Frugivore-omnivore	John G. R…
Dietary category: Miljutin 2009	Frugivore	Frugivore	A. R. Fri…
Locomotion: Eisenberg 1981	Terrestrial	Scansonal,Terrestrial	John L. G…
Temporal habits	nocturnal	nocturnal,nocturnal and crepuscular	John L. G…

Table 3. List of Standard Measurements for Procyon lotor.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	3	-	3	-	-	4,082.33	-	-	Nelson, A…
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	12	12	-	-	-	5,227.65	-	-	Engelman,…
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	5	-	-	5	-	4,989.52	-	-	Nelson, A…
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	12	12	-	-	-	5,227.65	-	-	Engelman,…

Table 4. List of other Measurements ^b. for Procyon lotor.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
OPD (l)		n/a	2	2	-	-	-	85	-	-	Evans, Al…
OPD (u)		n/a	3	3	-	-	-	96	-	-	Evans, Al…

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

Table 5. List of Data Sources for Procyon lotor.
Taxon	Reference	Match	Status
Procyon lotor	Robinson,John G., 1986, Body Size, Diet, and Population Density of Neotropical Forest Mammals, The American Naturalist	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Procyon lotor	Samuels,J. X., 2008, Skeletal indicators of locomotor adaptations in living and extinct rodents, Journal of Morphology	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Procyon lotor	Gittleman,J. L., 1985, Carnivore body size: ecological and taxonomic correlates, Oecologia	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Procyon lotor	Friscia,AR, 2006, An ecomorphological analysis of extant small carnivorans, Journal of zoology	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Procyon lotor	MedellÃƒÂn,R. A., 1994, Mammal diversity and conservation in the Selva Lacandona, Chiapas, Mexico, Conservation Biology	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Procyon lotor	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
Procyon lotor	Evans, Alistair R., Gregory P. Wilson, Mikael Fortelius, and Jukka Jernvall. Ã¢â‚¬Å“High-Level Similarity of Dentitions in Carnivorans and Rodents.Ã¢â‚¬Â Nature 445, no. 7123 (December 13, 2006): 78Ã¢â‚¬â€œ81. doi:10.1038/nature05433.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Procyon lotor	Reid,F., 2006, Peterson field guide to mammals of North America,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Procyon lotor	Grzimek,B., 2003, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Mammals I-V,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Procyon lotor	Law, C.J., Blackwell, E.A., Curtis, A.A., Dickinson, E., Hartstone‐Rose, A. and Santana, S.E., 2022. Decoupled evolution of the cranium and mandible in carnivoran mammals. Evolution.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Procyon lotor	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
Procyon lotor	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
Procyon lotor	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

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