AnAge entry for Lemmus lemmus
Classification (HAGRID: 02883)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Lemmus
- Species
- Lemmus lemmus
- Common name
- Norway lemming
- Synonyms
- Lemmus borealis, Cuniculus iterator, Lemmus norvegicus
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 3.3 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One specimen lived at least 3.3 years in captivity [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 24 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 44 days
- Gestation
- 19 days
- Weaning
- 15 days
- Litter size
- 7 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2.5
- Inter-litter interval
- 26 days
- Weight at birth
- 3.8 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 70 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.022 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 35%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 311ºK or 37.8ºC or 100.0ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 1.0710 W
- Body mass
- 80.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.013388 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)
- [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
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 632854
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 79949
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