AnAge entry for Galea spixii
Classification (HAGRID: 02862)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Caviidae
Genus: Galea
- Species
- Galea spixii
- Common name
- Spix's yellow-toothed cavy
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 4.6 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 70 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 112 days
- Gestation
- 53 days
- Weaning
- 42 days
- Litter size
- 2.5 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 6.5
- Inter-litter interval
- 53 days
- Weight at birth
- 40 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 450 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 37%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [0978] Jones et al. (2009), PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals
- [0671] Richard Weigl (2005), Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World
- [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
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 584717
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 181537
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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- Internet
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