AnAge entry for Macroscelides proboscideus
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Macroscelidea
Family: Macroscelididae
Genus: Macroscelides
- Species
- Macroscelides proboscideus
- Common name
- Short-eared elephant shrew
- Maximum longevity
- 8.7 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
- Female sexual maturity
- 44 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 65 days
- Weaning
- 19 days
- Litter size
- 1.6 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 7 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 40 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 101%
- Typical body temperature
- 309ºK or 36.2ºC or 97.2ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.2920 W
- Body mass
- 39.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.007487 W/g
- [1136] Gomes et al. (2011), Comparative biology of mammalian telomeres: hypotheses on ancestral states and the roles of telomeres in longevity determination (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
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- ITIS 584922
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- Taxonomy ID 29082
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