AnAge entry for Gerbillus gerbillus
Classification (HAGRID: 03035)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Gerbillus
- Species
- Gerbillus gerbillus
- Common name
- Lesser Egyptian gerbil
- Synonyms
- Gerbillus aegyptius, Gerbillus foleyi, Gerbillus hirtipes, Meriones longicaudus, Gerbillus gerbillus asyutensis, Gerbillus gerbillus sudanensis
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 5.9 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
Record longevity in captivity is 5.9 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 4.1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 30 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 71%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 310ºK or 37.2ºC or 99.0ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.2370 W
- Body mass
- 29.7 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.007980 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)
- [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
- [0542] Bernhard Grzimek (1990), Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 632937
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 298880
- Entrez
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