AnAge entry for Heliophobius argenteocinereus
Classification (HAGRID: 02847)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Bathyergidae
Genus: Heliophobius
- Species
- Heliophobius argenteocinereus
- Common name
- Silvery mole-rat
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- Not yet established
- Observations
Little is known about the longevity of these animals, and very few have been kept in captivity. Two males captured as adults in the wild were at least 7.5 years old when they died in captivity, but probably older. None of them showed signs of ageing (Radim Sumbera, pers. comm.). Therefore, the maximum longevity of this species is unknown.
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 88 days
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 2 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1.2
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 7 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 160 g
- Postnatal growth rate
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 308ºK or 35.1ºC or 95.2ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.4300 W
- Body mass
- 88.5 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.004859 W/g
References
- [1032] McNab (2008), An analysis of the factors that influence the level and scaling of mammalian BMR (PubMed)
- [0036] Savage et al. (2004), The predominance of quarter-power scaling in biology
- [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 584676
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 10179
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