MammalBase - Accepted taxon: Eulemur rufus

Accepted taxon: Eulemur rufus
Taxon:	Eulemur rufus
Rank:	Species
Higher Classification:	PRIMATES \| STREPSIRRHINI \| LEMURIFORMES \| Lemuroidea \| Lemuridae \| Eulemur
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 Eulemur rufus.
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 Eulemur rufus.
Trait	Selected Value	All Value(s)	Reference(s)
Dietary category: Eisenberg 1981	Frugivore-omnivore	Frugivore-omnivore	– Jonathan M. Bunn, Doug M. Boyer, Yaron Lipman, Elizabeth M. St. Clair, Jukka Jernvall, Ingrid Daubechies, 2011, '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', American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 145, no. 2, pp. 247-261
Dietary category: Miljutin 2009	Frugivore	Frugivore	– Jonathan M. Bunn, Doug M. Boyer, Yaron Lipman, Elizabeth M. St. Clair, Jukka Jernvall, Ingrid Daubechies, 2011, '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', American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 145, no. 2, pp. 247-261

Table 3. List of Standard Measurements for Eulemur rufus.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
Body Mass (BM)	Talatakely, Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar	g	33	33	-	-	-	2,206	-	-	Tan,C. L.…

Table 4. List of other Measurements ^b. for Eulemur rufus.
Measurement	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
2dm1	-	-	-	-	-	-	24	-	-	Boyer, Do…
3dm2	-	-	-	-	-	-	50	-	-	Boyer, Do…
m2_relief	-	6	6	-	-	0	1	1	0	Boyer, Do…
sdm2	-	-	-	-	-	-	18	-	-	Boyer, Do…

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

Table 5. List of Data Sources for Eulemur rufus.
Taxon	Reference	Match	Status
Eulemur fulvus rufus	Bunn,J. M., 2011, 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, American Journal of Physical Anthropology	3: Genus, Species = Master genus, subspecies	Verified - Accepted
Eulemur fulvus rufus	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	3: Genus, Species = Master genus, subspecies	Verified - Accepted
Eulemur fulvus rufus	Boyer, Doug M. Ã¢â‚¬Å“Relief Index of Second Mandibular Molars Is a Correlate of Diet Among Prosimian Primates and Other Euarchontan Mammals.Ã¢â‚¬Â Journal of Human Evolution 55, no. 6 (December 2008): 1118Ã¢â‚¬â€œ1137. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2008.08.002.	3: Genus, Species = Master genus, subspecies	Verified - Accepted
Eulemur rufus	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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