AnAge entry for Micaelamys namaquensis
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Micaelamys
- Species
- Micaelamys namaquensis
- Common name
- Namaqua rock rat, or Rock mouse
- Synonyms
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Aethomys namaquensis, Mus arborarius, Mus auricomis, Mus avarillus, Mus lehocla, Aethomys namaquensis calarius, Praomys namaquensis capensis, Mus auricomis centralis, Praomys namaquensis drakensbergi, Praomys namaquensis klaverensis, Praomys namaquensis lechochloides, Mus namaquensis monticularis, Aethomys namaquensis namibensis, Aethomys namaquensis siccatus, Aethomys namaquensis waterbergensis
- Maximum longevity
- 4.7 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
- Female sexual maturity
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 22 days
- Weaning
- 24 days
- Litter size
- 3.8 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 2.5 g
- Weight at weaning
- 12.5 g
- Adult weight
- 47.6 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 53%
- Typical body temperature
- 310ºK or 36.8ºC or 98.2ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.2920 W
- Body mass
- 62.6 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.004665 W/g
- [0978] Jones et al. (2009), PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals
- [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
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
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- ITIS 970854
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