AnAge entry for Anas platyrhynchos
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (Taxon entry)
Order: Anseriformes
Family: Anatidae
Genus: Anas
- Species
- Anas platyrhynchos
- Common name
- Mallard
- Synonyms
-
Anas oustaleti
- Maximum longevity
- 29.1 years
- Source
- Multiple references, please see bibliography below
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
- Female sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Incubation
- 26 days
- Clutch size
- 9 (oviparous)
- Clutches per year
- 1
- Weight at hatching
- 32.8 g
- Adult weight
- 1,048 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.12 days-1 (from logistic function)
- Typical body temperature
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 4.0680 W
- Body mass
- 1020.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.003988 W/g
- [0729] Moller (2006), Sociality, age at first reproduction and senescence: comparative analyses of birds (PubMed)
- [0061] Monaghan and Metcalfe (2000), Genome size and longevity (PubMed)
- [0394] Stunden et al. (1999), Factors affecting reproductive performance in captive Mallard ducks (PubMed)
- [0732] Starck and Ricklefs (1998), Avian growth rate data set
- [0510] Reynolds and Lee (1996), Phylogenetic analysis of avian energetics: passerines and non-passerines do not differ
- [0444] John Terres (1980), The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds
- [0437] FEIS by the USDA Forest Service
- [0445] The Birds of North America Online
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 175063
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 8839
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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