AnAge entry for Baiomys taylori
Classification (HAGRID: 02873)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Baiomys
- Species
- Baiomys taylori
- Common name
- Northern pygmy mouse
- Synonyms
- Peromyscus allex, Peromyscus paulus, Peromyscus taylori analogus, Baiomys taylori ater, Baiomys taylori canutus, Baiomys taylori fuliginatus, Peromyscus taylori subater
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 3.3 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 637
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
In the wild, these animals live about 5 months with the longest marked individual living 1.1 years. In captivity they may live up to 3.3 years [0637].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 44 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 75 days
- Gestation
- 20 days
- Weaning
- 21 days
- Litter size
- 3 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 10
- Inter-litter interval
- 24 days
- Weight at birth
- 1.2 g
- Weight at weaning
- 3.6 g
- Adult weight
- 8 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0425 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 49%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 309ºK or 36.0ºC or 96.8ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.0950 W
- Body mass
- 7.2 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.013194 W/g
References
- [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)
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0538] Don Wilson and Sue Ruff (1999), The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals
- [0441] William Burt et al. (1998), A Field Guide to Mammals
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [0637] Eshelman and Cameron (1987), Baiomys taylori
- [0680] Wootton (1987), The effects of body mass, phylogeny, habitat, and trophic level on mammalian age at first reproduction
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 180368
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 56219
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