AnAge entry for Bettongia penicillata
Classification (HAGRID: 02568)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Potoroidae
Genus: Bettongia
- Species
- Bettongia penicillata
- Common name
- Woylie
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 18.8 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One specimen lived 18.8 years in captivity [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 180 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 18 days
- Weaning
- 150 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 3
- Inter-litter interval
- 102 days
- Weight at birth
- 0.29 g
- Weight at weaning
- 500 g
- Adult weight
- 1,500 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 125%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 310ºK or 37.2ºC or 99.0ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 3.1320 W
- Body mass
- 1018.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.003077 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)
- [0522] Fisher et al. (2001), The ecological basis of life history variation in marsupials
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [0511] Ronald Nowak and John Paradiso (1983), Walker's Mammals of the World
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 552701
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 69259
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