AnAge entry for Ictonyx striatus

Classification (HAGRID: 02177)

Taxonomy: Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Chordata
        Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
            Order: Carnivora
                Family: Mustelidae
                    Genus: Ictonyx
Species: Ictonyx striatus
Common name: Striped polecat

Maximum longevity: 14 years (captivity)
Source: ref. 671
Sample size: Tiny
Data quality: Acceptable
Observations: Males only mate when they are about 2 years of age, but they may become sexually mature with less than a year of age. One wild born animal was about 14 years old when it died in captivity [0671].

No information on metabolism is available.

[0817] Bielby et al. (2007), The fast-slow continuum in mammalian life history: an empirical reevaluation (PubMed)
[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
[0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves