AnAge entry for Cannomys badius
Classification (HAGRID: 03194)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Spalacidae
Genus: Cannomys
- Species
- Cannomys badius
- Common name
- Lesser bamboo rat
- Synonyms
- Rhizomys castaneus, Rhizomys minor, Cannomys pater, Cannomys minor l?nnbergi, Cannomys badius plumbescens
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 4.8 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One captive specimen was still alive after 4.8 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 42 days
- Weaning
- 61 days
- Litter size
- 1.8 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 7 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 650 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0145 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 36%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 309ºK or 36.0ºC or 96.8ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.9600 W
- Body mass
- 344.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.002791 W/g
References
- [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)
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [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
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 632757
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 1392512
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