AnAge entry for Meriones crassus
Classification (HAGRID: 03046)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Meriones
- Species
- Meriones crassus
- Common name
- Sundevall's jird
- Synonyms
- Meriones charon, Meriones ismahelis, Meriones longifrons, Meriones pelerinus, Gerbillus swinhoei, Meriones crasssus pallidus, Meriones crassus perpallidus, Meriones pallidus tripolius
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 5.6 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 61 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 82 days
- Gestation
- 22 days
- Weaning
- 20 days
- Litter size
- 4 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2
- Inter-litter interval
- 67 days
- Weight at birth
- 3.35 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 35 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0366 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 66%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [0671] Richard Weigl (2005), Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World
- [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
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 632978
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 298887
- Entrez
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