AnAge entry for Microtus longicaudus
Classification (HAGRID: 02891)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Microtus
- Species
- Microtus longicaudus
- Common name
- Long-tailed vole
- Synonyms
- Microtus coronarius, Microtus longicaudus coronarius, Microtus longicaudus longicaudus, Arvicola alticolus, Microtus angusticeps, Arvicola leucophaeus, Microtus macrurus, Arvicola mordax, Microtus vellerosus, Microtus mordax abditus, Microtus mordax angustus, Microtus longicaudus baileyi, Microtus mordax bernardinus, Microtus mordax halli, Microtus longicaudus incanus, Microtus mordax latus, Microtus mordax littoralis, Microtus mordax sierrae
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- Not yet established
- Observations
In the wild, these animals rarely live more than a year. Two females have been reported to live 1.1 years [0619]. Maximum longevity is unknown.
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 5.22 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1.9
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 36.7 g
- Postnatal growth rate
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 311ºK or 38.0ºC or 100.4ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.3830 W
- Body mass
- 32.5 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.011785 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)
- [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
- [0619] Smolen and Keller (1987), Microtus longicaudus
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 180299
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 98314
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- Ageing Literature
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