AnAge entry for Crocidura flavescens
Classification (HAGRID: 03213)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Soricomorpha
Family: Soricidae
Genus: Crocidura
- Species
- Crocidura flavescens
- Common name
- Greater red musk shrew
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 2.2 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 589
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One anecdotal report, which appears plausible, suggests that these animals may live up to 2.2 years in captivity [0589].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 25 days
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 3.3 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 2.26 g
- Weight at weaning
- 20.7 g
- Adult weight
- 45 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 25%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.2480 W
- Body mass
- 33.2 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.007470 W/g
References
- [0036] Savage et al. (2004), The predominance of quarter-power scaling in biology
- [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
- [0589] The Shrew Site
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 633587
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 214442
- Entrez
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