AnAge entry for Macrotis lagotis
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Peramelemorphia
Family: Thylacomyidae
Genus: Macrotis
- Species
- Macrotis lagotis
- Common name
- Rabbit-bandicoot, or Bilby
- Maximum longevity
- 9.6 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
- Female sexual maturity
- 150 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 17 days
- Weaning
- 110 days
- Litter size
- 2 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 4
- Inter-litter interval
- 175 days
- Weight at birth
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 1,300 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 65%
- Typical body temperature
- 308ºK or 35.0ºC or 95.0ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 2.4000 W
- Body mass
- 1245.5 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.001927 W/g
- [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
- [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)
- [0522] Fisher et al. (2001), The ecological basis of life history variation in marsupials
- [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
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- ITIS 552658
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- Taxonomy ID 92651
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