AnAge entry for Galidia elegans
Classification (HAGRID: 02104)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Carnivora
Family: Eupleridae
Genus: Galidia
- Species
- Galidia elegans
- Common name
- Ring-tailed mongoose
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 26 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One wild born animal was about 26 years old when it died in captivity [0434].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 737 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 72 days
- Weaning
- 60 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at birth
- 50 g
- Weight at weaning
- 183 g
- Adult weight
- 800 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0093 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 191%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [0671] Richard Weigl (2005), Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World
- [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
- [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
External Resources
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- ITIS 621875
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- Taxonomy ID 61400
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