AnAge entry for Geomys bursarius
Classification (HAGRID: 02974)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Geomyidae
Genus: Geomys
- Species
- Geomys bursarius
- Common name
- Plains pocket gopher
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 12 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One wild born specimen was about 12 years old when it died in captivity [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 91 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 91 days
- Gestation
- 51 days
- Weaning
- 34 days
- Litter size
- 4 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 5.2 g
- Weight at weaning
- 22.5 g
- Adult weight
- 176.7 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 111%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 308ºK or 35.0ºC or 95.0ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.7690 W
- Body mass
- 197.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.003904 W/g
References
- [1032] McNab (2008), An analysis of the factors that influence the level and scaling of mammalian BMR (PubMed)
- [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
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0441] William Burt et al. (1998), A Field Guide to Mammals
- [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
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- ITIS 180216
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- Taxonomy ID 27682
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