AnAge entry for Microtus ochrogaster
Classification (HAGRID: 02892)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Microtus
- Species
- Microtus ochrogaster
- Common name
- Prairie vole
- Synonyms
- Hypudaeus ochrogaster, Microtus ludovicianus, Arvicola austerus, Arvicola cinnamonea, Arvicola haydenii, Arvicola austerus minor, Microtus ochrogaster ohioensis, Microtus ochrogaster similis, Microtus ochrogaster taylori, Microtus ochrogaster ludovicianus
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 5.3 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
In the wild, these animals probably live less than a year [0617]. One wild born specimen was about 5.3 years old when it died in captivity [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 47 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 23 days
- Weaning
- 20 days
- Litter size
- 3.8 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 4
- Inter-litter interval
- 26 days
- Weight at birth
- 3.02 g
- Weight at weaning
- 16.7 g
- Adult weight
- 40 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0666 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 61%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 311ºK or 37.9ºC or 100.2ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.4100 W
- Body mass
- 48.2 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.008506 W/g
References
- [0817] Bielby et al. (2007), The fast-slow continuum in mammalian life history: an empirical reevaluation (PubMed)
- [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
- [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
- [0617] Stalling (1990), Microtus ochrogaster
- [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
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 180312
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 79684
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