AnAge entry for Carlito syrichta
Classification (HAGRID: 02835)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Primates (Taxon entry)
Family: Tarsiidae
Genus: Carlito
- Species
- Carlito syrichta
- Common name
- Philippine tarsier
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 16 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Tiny
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One male reportedly lived over 10 years in captivity, making it about 16 years old [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 179 days
- Weaning
- 83 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 25.9 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 119.2 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 157%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 307ºK or 33.8ºC or 92.8ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.4300 W
- Body mass
- 113.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.003805 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
- [0681] Peter Kappeler and Michael Pereira (2003), Primate Life Histories and Socioecology
- [0467] Lindenfors (2002), Sexually antagonistic selection on primate size
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0463] Austad (1997), Small nonhuman primates as potential models of human aging (PubMed)
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [0679] Harvey and Clutton-Brock (1985), Life-history variation in primates
- [0436] Cutler (1979), Evolution of human longevity: a critical overview (PubMed)
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 944114
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9478
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