AnAge entry for Mephitis mephitis
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Carnivora
Family: Mephitidae
Genus: Mephitis
- Species
- Mephitis mephitis
- Common name
- Striped skunk
- Synonyms
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Viverra mephitis
- Maximum longevity
- 13.9 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
- Female sexual maturity
- 335 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 335 days
- Gestation
- 63 days
- Weaning
- 60 days
- Litter size
- 5 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at birth
- 33.5 g
- Weight at weaning
- 493.5 g
- Adult weight
- 3,500 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0143 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 81%
- Typical body temperature
- 310ºK or 36.5ºC or 97.6ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- Not yet available
- [1032] McNab (2008), An analysis of the factors that influence the level and scaling of mammalian BMR (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
- [0538] Don Wilson and Sue Ruff (1999), The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals
- [0441] William Burt et al. (1998), A Field Guide to Mammals
- [0676] Purvis and Harvey (1995), Mammal life-history evolution: a comparative test of Charnov's model
- [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
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- ITIS 180562
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- Taxonomy ID 30548
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