AnAge entry for Elephantulus brachyrhynchus
Classification (HAGRID: 02612)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Macroscelidea
Family: Macroscelididae
Genus: Elephantulus
- Species
- Elephantulus brachyrhynchus
- Common name
- Short-nosed elephant shrew
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- Not yet established
- Observations
Knowledge is limited regarding the longevity of these animals, though one captive specimen lived 4.2 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 1.8 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 5.5
- Inter-litter interval
- 75 days
- Weight at birth
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 44.3 g
- Postnatal growth rate
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 311ºK or 37.5ºC or 99.5ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.2440 W
- Body mass
- 45.3 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.005386 W/g
References
- [0978] Jones et al. (2009), PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals
- [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
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 584912
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 113275
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