AnAge entry for Dicrostonyx groenlandicus
Classification (HAGRID: 02876)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Dicrostonyx
- Species
- Dicrostonyx groenlandicus
- Common name
- Collared lemming
- Synonyms
- Dicrostonyx kilangmiutak, Dicrostonyx rubricatus, Arvicola rubricatus, Dicrostonyx hudsonius alascensis, Dicrostonyx groenlandicus clarus, Dicrostonyx groenlandicus kilangmiutak, Dicrostonyx groenlandicus lentus
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 3.3 years
- Source
- ref. 434
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
These animals can live up to 3.3 years [0434].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 40 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 85 days
- Gestation
- 20 days
- Weaning
- 16 days
- Litter size
- 3.4 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 8.5
- Inter-litter interval
- 26 days
- Weight at birth
- 4.35 g
- Weight at weaning
- 23 g
- Adult weight
- 66 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0402 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 35%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 312ºK or 38.4ºC or 101.1ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.4590 W
- Body mass
- 56.8 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.008081 W/g
References
- [0036] Savage et al. (2004), The predominance of quarter-power scaling in biology
- [0420] White and Seymour (2003), Mammalian basal metabolic rate is proportional to body mass2/3 (PubMed)
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [0680] Wootton (1987), The effects of body mass, phylogeny, habitat, and trophic level on mammalian age at first reproduction
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 180328
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 85953
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- Ageing Literature
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