AnAge entry for Echinops telfairi
Classification (HAGRID: 01888)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Afrosoricida
Family: Tenrecidae
Genus: Echinops
- Species
- Echinops telfairi
- Common name
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 19 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
In the wild, they become sexually mature after their first winter's hibernation, though females may conceive at six months of age in captivity. One captive specimen lived for 19 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Gestation
- 55 days
- Weaning
- 29 days
- Litter size
- 6 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 7.67 g
- Weight at weaning
- 50 g
- Adult weight
- 180 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0301 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 175%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 308ºK or 34.7ºC or 94.5ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.7500 W
- Body mass
- 116.4 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.006443 W/g
References
- [1103] Lazic (2012), Modeling hippocampal neurogenesis across the lifespan in seven species (PubMed)
- [1030] Lovegrove and Genin (2008), Torpor and hibernation in a basal placental mammal, the Lesser Hedgehog Tenrec Echinops telfairi (PubMed)
- [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
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0678] Symonds (1999), Life histories of the Insectivora: the role of phylogeny, metabolism, and sex differences
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [0542] Bernhard Grzimek (1990), Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals
- [0680] Wootton (1987), The effects of body mass, phylogeny, habitat, and trophic level on mammalian age at first reproduction
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
- [0148] Hart and Setlow (1974), Correlation between deoxyribonucleic acid excision-repair and life-span in a number of mammalian species (PubMed)
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 633512
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9371
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