MammalBase - Accepted taxon: Carollia brevicauda

Accepted taxon: Carollia brevicauda
Taxon:	Carollia brevicauda
Rank:	Species
Higher Classification:	CHIROPTERA \| Phyllostomidae \| Carolliinae \| Carollia
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 Carollia brevicauda diet.
CF (Crude Fibre) 9, ASH (Ash contents) 4, NFE (Nitrogen-Free-Extract) 57, CP (Crude Protein) 21, EE (Ether Extract) 9. 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 Carollia brevicauda.
TSN Complete name	Part	Ratio ^a.	Reference(s)
Magnoliopsida	FRUIT	47.80	Damuth, J…
Insecta	WHOLE	30.77	Damuth, J…
Magnoliopsida	NECTAR/JUICE	15.38	Damuth, J…
Piper	FRUIT	1.92	Pellón, J…
Cecropia	FRUIT	1.37	Pellón, J…
Arthropoda	WHOLE	1.10	Pellón, J…
Diptera	WHOLE	0.82	Pellón, J…
Solanaceae	FRUIT	0.55	Pellón, J…
Coleoptera	WHOLE	0.27	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 Carollia brevicauda.
Trait	Selected Value	All Value(s)	Reference(s)
Dietary category: Eisenberg 1981	Frugivore-Granivore	Frugivore-Granivore,Frugivore-Herbivore,Frugivore-omnivore,Insectivore-Omnivore	Elisabeth…
Dietary category: Miljutin 2009	Frugivore	Animalivore,Frugivore	Elisabeth…
Locomotion: Eisenberg 1981	Volant	Volant	Paglia,A.…
Temporal habits	nocturnal	nocturnal	Rodrigo A…

Table 3. List of Standard Measurements for Carollia brevicauda.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
- Checked, Unlinked -	Mexico	n/a	3	3	-	-	-		-	0	Jorge E. …
Body Mass (BM)	Mexico	g	3	3	-	-	-	17.23	-	1	Jorge E. …
Body Mass (BM)	Central America	g	-	-	-	-	-	18.5	-	-	Robert M.…
Body Mass (BM)	Brazil	g	-	-	-	-	-	17	-	-	Paglia,A.…

Table 4. List of other Measurements ^b. for Carollia brevicauda.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
Basicranium width (mm)	nan	mm	4	4	-	-	11	11	12	0	Grossnick…

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

Table 5. List of Data Sources for Carollia brevicauda.
Taxon	Reference	Match	Status
Carollia brevicauda	Santana,S. E., 2011, The better to eat you with: functional correlates of tooth structure in bats, Functional Ecology	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Carollia brevicauda	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
Carollia brevicauda	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
Carollia brevicauda	Schondube,J. E., 2001, Diet and the evolution of digestion and renal function in phyllostomid bats, Zoology	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Carollia brevicauda	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
Carollia brevicauda	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
Carollia brevicauda	MedellÃƒÂn,R. A., 1994, Mammal diversity and conservation in the Selva Lacandona, Chiapas, Mexico, Conservation Biology	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Carollia brevicauda	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
Carollia brevicauda	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
Carollia brevicauda	López‐Aguirre, C., Ratcliffe, J.M. and Silcox, M.T., 2023. Interplay of diet and sympatry in the morphological evolution of noctilionoid bats. Journal of Biogeography.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Carollia brevicauda	Grossnickle, D.M., Sadier, A., Patterson, E., Cortés-Viruet, N.N., Jiménez-Rivera, S.M., Sears, K.E. and Santana, S.E., 2024. The hierarchical radiation of phyllostomid bats as revealed by adaptive molar morphology. Current Biology.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted

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