AnAge entry for Funisciurus congicus
Classification (HAGRID: 03130)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Funisciurus
- Species
- Funisciurus congicus
- Common name
- Congo rope squirrel
- Synonyms
- Funisciurus praetextus
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- Not yet established
- Observations
Little is known about the longevity of these endangered species. Reports suggesting these animals live nearly 10 years were not confirmed upon close scrutiny and were probably the result of confusion with similar species. One captive specimen lived for 3.7 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 52 days
- Weaning
- 50 days
- Litter size
- 2 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2
- Inter-litter interval
- 60 days
- Weight at birth
- 9.91 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 106 g
- Postnatal growth rate
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 312ºK or 39.3ºC or 102.7ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.5330 W
- Body mass
- 112.3 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.004746 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
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- ITIS 632359
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