AnAge entry for Cricetomys gambianus
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Nesomyidae
Genus: Cricetomys
- Species
- Cricetomys gambianus
- Common name
- Gambian rat
- Synonyms
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Cricetomys buchanani, Cricetomys gambiensis, Mus goliath, Cricetomys servorum, Cricetomys gambianus dichrurus, Cricetomys gambianus oliviae
- Maximum longevity
- 8.4 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
- Female sexual maturity
- 158 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 34 days
- Weaning
- 31 days
- Litter size
- 3.5 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 3.75
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 25.7 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 1,500 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.042 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 56%
- Typical body temperature
- 309ºK or 35.6ºC or 96.1ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 6.0240 W
- Body mass
- 1686.7 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.003571 W/g
- [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)
- [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
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 632775
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- Taxonomy ID 10085
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