AnAge entry for Microtus pinetorum
Classification (HAGRID: 02895)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Microtus
- Species
- Microtus pinetorum
- Common name
- Woodland vole
- Synonyms
- Psammomys pinetorum, Microtus pinetorum nemoralis, Microtus parvulus, Pitymys parvulus, Pitymys pinetorum, Microtus pinetorum parvulus, Microtus pinetorum pinetorum, Arvicola apella, Arvicola kennicottii, Arvicola scalopsoides, Microtus pinetorum auricularis, Pitymys pinetorum carbonarius, Pitymys pinetorum schmidti
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 3.8 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
Voles, in general, are short-lived and show seasonal population crashes, probably due to lack of food. One wild born specimen was about 3.8 years old when it died in captivity [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 98 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 21 days
- Weaning
- 21 days
- Litter size
- 3 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2.7
- Inter-litter interval
- 26 days
- Weight at birth
- 2.32 g
- Weight at weaning
- 9.6 g
- Adult weight
- 25.5 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.055 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 47%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 311ºK or 38.3ºC or 100.9ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.3050 W
- Body mass
- 24.8 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.012298 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
- [0441] William Burt et al. (1998), A Field Guide to Mammals
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [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
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- ITIS 180314
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 111839
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