AnAge entry for Erinaceus europaeus
Classification (HAGRID: 02585)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Erinaceomorpha
Family: Erinaceidae
Genus: Erinaceus
- Species
- Erinaceus europaeus
- Common name
- Western European hedgehog
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 11.7 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
On average this animal reaches sexual maturity 3 months earlier in captivity. In the wild they appear to live up to 7-8 years. One captive specimen lived for 11.7 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 253 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 253 days
- Gestation
- 30 days
- Weaning
- 42 days
- Litter size
- 1.5 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1.6
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 14.7 g
- Weight at weaning
- 235 g
- Adult weight
- 750 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 87%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 307ºK or 34.0ºC or 93.2ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 2.4340 W
- Body mass
- 1213.5 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.002006 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
- [0676] Purvis and Harvey (1995), Mammal life-history evolution: a comparative test of Charnov's model
- [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
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 633540
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9365
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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