AnAge entry for Eira barbara
Classification (HAGRID: 02170)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Carnivora
Family: Mustelidae
Genus: Eira
- Species
- Eira barbara
- Common name
- Tayra
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 22.3 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
Little is known about reproduction in this species and age at sexual maturity is based on few studies [0610].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 700 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 183 days
- Gestation
- 66 days
- Weaning
- 75 days
- Litter size
- 2 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 83 g
- Weight at weaning
- 1,708 g
- Adult weight
- 4,500 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0159 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 126%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 312ºK or 38.4ºC or 101.1ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 6.8110 W
- Body mass
- 2950.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.002309 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 621934
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- ADW account
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 204263
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