AnAge entry for Hydromys chrysogaster
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Hydromys
- Species
- Hydromys chrysogaster
- Common name
- Golden-bellied water rat
- Synonyms
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Hydromys beccarii, Hydromys esox, Hydromys fuliginosus, Hydromys fulvogaster, Hydromys fulvolavatus, Hydromys fulvoventer, Hydromys grootensis, Hydromys lawnensis, Hydromys leucogaster, Hydromys longmani, Hydromys melicertes, Hydromys moae, Hydromys nauticus, Hydromys oriens, Hydromys chrysogaster reginae, Hydromys chrysogaster caurinus, Hydromys esox illuteus
- Maximum longevity
- 7.3 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
- Female sexual maturity
- 163 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 135 days
- Gestation
- 36 days
- Weaning
- 30 days
- Litter size
- 3.8 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2.1
- Inter-litter interval
- 60 days
- Weight at birth
- 24.39 g
- Weight at weaning
- 150 g
- Adult weight
- 850 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0167 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 53%
- Typical body temperature
- 310ºK or 36.6ºC or 97.9ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 2.9700 W
- Body mass
- 900.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.003300 W/g
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- [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
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
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- ITIS 585251
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- Taxonomy ID 160448
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