AnAge entry for Glis glis
Classification (HAGRID: 02983)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Gliridae
Genus: Glis
- Species
- Glis glis
- Common name
- Fat dormouse
- Synonyms
- Myoxus glis, Myoxus avellanus, Glis esculentus, Myoxus giglis, Glis insularis, Glis italicus, Glis melonii, Sciurus persicus, Glis vulgaris, Sciurus glis, Glis glis subalpinus, Glis glis postus, Myoxus glis orientalis, Myoxus glis caspius, Glis glis spoliatus, Glis glis pyrenaicus, Glis italicus intermedius, Glis glis tschetshenicus, Glis glis abruttii, Glis glis minutus, Glis glis petruccii
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 8.7 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One animal lived 8.7 years in captivity [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 322 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 335 days
- Gestation
- 25 days
- Weaning
- 33 days
- Litter size
- 4 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1.2
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 1.5 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 125 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 85%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 311ºK or 37.7ºC or 99.9ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.6640 W
- Body mass
- 174.4 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.003807 W/g
References
- [1266] Hoelzl et al. (2016), Telomeres are elongated in older individuals in a hibernating rodent, the edible dormouse (Glis glis) (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
- [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
- [0542] Bernhard Grzimek (1990), Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals
- [0680] Wootton (1987), The effects of body mass, phylogeny, habitat, and trophic level on mammalian age at first reproduction
- [0570] glirarium.org
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- ITIS 951305
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