AnAge entry for Microgale talazaci
Classification (HAGRID: 01892)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Afrosoricida
Family: Tenrecidae
Genus: Microgale
- Species
- Microgale talazaci
- Common name
- Talazac's shrew tenrec
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 5.8 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 434
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
Record longevity in captivity is reportedly 5.8 years [0434].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 639 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 639 days
- Gestation
- 61 days
- Weaning
- 29 days
- Litter size
- 2 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 3.6 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 50 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0298 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 65%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 304ºK or 30.8ºC or 87.4ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.2430 W
- Body mass
- 44.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.005523 W/g
References
- [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)
- [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 633504
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- Taxonomy ID 176115
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