AnAge entry for Helogale parvula
Classification (HAGRID: 02146)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Carnivora
Family: Herpestidae
Genus: Helogale
- Species
- Helogale parvula
- Common name
- Dwarf mongoose
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 20 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 1306
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
In the wild these animals live up to 13 years (Peter Waser, pers. comm.). One captive specimen lived for 20 years [1306].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 456 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 55 days
- Weaning
- 21 days
- Litter size
- 3 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2.25
- Inter-litter interval
- 142 days
- Weight at birth
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 274.8 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 173%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [1306] Peron et al. (2019), Variation in actuarial senescence does not reflect life span variation across mammals (PubMed)
- [0978] Jones et al. (2009), PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals
- [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
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- ITIS 621890
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- Taxonomy ID 210647
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