MammalBase - Accepted taxon: Acinonyx jubatus

Accepted taxon: Acinonyx jubatus
Taxon:	Acinonyx jubatus
Rank:	Species
Higher Classification:	CARNIVORA \| FELIFORMIA \| Felidae \| Felinae \| Acinonyx
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 Acinonyx jubatus diet.
CF (Crude Fibre) 0, ASH (Ash contents) 5, NFE (Nitrogen-Free-Extract) 2, CP (Crude Protein) 58, EE (Ether Extract) 15. 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 Acinonyx jubatus.
TSN Complete name	Part	Ratio ^a.	Reference(s)
Artiodactyla	WHOLE	30.83	Damuth, J…
Bovidae	WHOLE	12.50	Grzimek,B…
Lepus	WHOLE	12.50	Grzimek,B…
Gazella	WHOLE	11.11	Krausman,…
Aepyceros melampus	WHOLE	9.72	Krausman,…
Phacochoerus africanus	WHOLE	7.50	Damuth, J…
Mammalia	WHOLE	6.94	Grzimek,B…
Rodentia	WHOLE	5.00	Damuth, J…
Aves	WHOLE	3.89	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 Acinonyx jubatus.
Trait	Selected Value	All Value(s)	Reference(s)
Locomotion: Eisenberg 1981	Terrestrial	Terrestrial	– John L. Gittleman, 1985, 'Carnivore body size: Ecological and taxonomic correlates', Oecologia, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 540-554
Dietary category: Eisenberg 1981	Carnivore	Carnivore	– Brian K. McNab, 1986, 'The Influence of Food Habits on the Energetics of Eutherian Mammals', Ecological Monographs, vol. 56, no. 1, p. 1, John L. Gittleman, 1985, 'Carnivore body size: Ecological and taxonomic correlates', Oecologia, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 540-554, Juhn, M., Balisi, M., Doughty, E., Friscia, A., Howenstine, A., Jacquemetton, C., Marcot, J., Nugen, S., Van Valkenburgh, B. 2024. Cenozoic climate change and the evolution of North American mammalian predator ecomorphology. Paleobiology. None(None), pp.1-10. Available at: 10.1017/pab.2024.27.
Dietary category: Miljutin 2009	Animalivore	Animalivore	– Brian K. McNab, 1986, 'The Influence of Food Habits on the Energetics of Eutherian Mammals', Ecological Monographs, vol. 56, no. 1, p. 1, John L. Gittleman, 1985, 'Carnivore body size: Ecological and taxonomic correlates', Oecologia, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 540-554, Juhn, M., Balisi, M., Doughty, E., Friscia, A., Howenstine, A., Jacquemetton, C., Marcot, J., Nugen, S., Van Valkenburgh, B. 2024. Cenozoic climate change and the evolution of North American mammalian predator ecomorphology. Paleobiology. None(None), pp.1-10. Available at: 10.1017/pab.2024.27.
Temporal habits	diurnal	diurnal	– John L. Gittleman, 1985, 'Carnivore body size: Ecological and taxonomic correlates', Oecologia, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 540-554

Table 3. List of Standard Measurements for Acinonyx jubatus.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	3	3	-	-	-	38,506.47	-	-	Engelman,…
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	-	-	-	-	-	50,578	-	-	Juhn, M.,…
Head-Body Length (HBL)	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	1,228	-	-	Engelman,…
Occipital condyle width (OCW)	nan	mm	3	3	-	-	-	38.08	-	-	Engelman,…

Table 4. List of other Measurements ^b. for Acinonyx jubatus.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
OPD (l)		n/a	1	1	-	-	-	7	-	-	Evans, Al…
OPD (u)		n/a	2	2	-	-	-	10	-	-	Evans, Al…
brainmass	nan	g	-	-	-	-	-	111	-	-	Engelman,…
skull_length	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	226	-	-	Engelman,…
BMR (kJ/h)	nan	kJ/h	-	-	-	-	-	180	-	-	McNab, B.…
femur circumference	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	55	-	-	Nelson, A…
femur diameter	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	17	-	-	Nelson, A…
humerus circumference	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	53	-	-	Nelson, A…
humerus diameter	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	16	-	-	Nelson, A…
neck length	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	163	-	-	Nelson, A…
BMR,mlO2/h	nan	mlO2/h	2	2	-	-	-	8,982	-	-	Genoud, M…
relative blade length (RBL)	nan	unitless	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	Juhn, M.S…

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

Table 5. List of Data Sources for Acinonyx jubatus.
Taxon	Reference	Match	Status
Acinonyx jubatus	McNab,B. K., 1986, The influence of food habits on the energetics of eutherian mammals, Ecological Monographs	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Acinonyx jubanis	Gittleman,J. L., 1985, Carnivore body size: ecological and taxonomic correlates, Oecologia	51: Name variant or misspelling of the taxon	Verified - Accepted
Acinonyx jubatus	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
Acinonyx jubatus	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
Acinonyx jubatus	Nowak,R. M., 1991, Walker's mammals of the world,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Acinonyx jubatus	Krausman, P.R. and Morales, S.M., 2005. Acinonyx jubatus.Ã‚Â Mammalian Species, pp.1-6.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Acinonyx jubatus	Grzimek,B., 2003, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Mammals I-V,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Acinonyx jubatus	Nowak,R. M., 1991, Walker's mammals of the world,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Acinonyx jubatus	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
Acinonyx jubatus	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
Acinonyx jubatus	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
Acinonyx jubatus	McNab, B.K., 2008. An analysis of the factors that influence the level and scaling of mammalian BMR. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 151(1), pp.5-28.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Acinonyx jubatus	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
Acinonyx jubatus	Genoud, M., Isler, K. and Martin, R.D., 2018. Comparative analyses of basal rate of metabolism in mammals: data selection does matter. Biological Reviews, 93(1), pp.404-438.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Acinonyx jubatus	Juhn, M.S., Balisi, M.A., Doughty, E.M., Friscia, A.R., Howenstine, A.O., Jacquemetton, C., Marcot, J., Nugen, S. and Van Valkenburgh, B., 2024. Cenozoic climate change and the evolution of North American mammalian predator ecomorphology. Paleobiology, pp.1-10.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Acinonyx jubatus	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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