AnAge entry for Pseudocheirus peregrinus
Classification (HAGRID: 02574)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Pseudocheiridae
Genus: Pseudocheirus
- Species
- Pseudocheirus peregrinus
- Common name
- Common ringtail, or Ring-tailed possum
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 10.1 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
In captivity one specimen lived for 10.1 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Gestation
- Weaning
- 180 days
- Litter size
- 2 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1.5
- Inter-litter interval
- 200 days
- Weight at birth
- 0.3 g
- Weight at weaning
- 400 g
- Adult weight
- 850 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 73%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 311ºK or 37.4ºC or 99.3ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 2.2700 W
- Body mass
- 859.3 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.002642 W/g
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
- [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)
- [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 609828
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9333
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