AnAge entry for Mungos mungo
Classification (HAGRID: 02156)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Carnivora
Family: Herpestidae
Genus: Mungos
- Species
- Mungos mungo
- Common name
- Banded mongoose
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 17.4 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- High
- Observations
In captivity, they may live up to 17.4 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 289 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 60 days
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 2.5 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at birth
- 39 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 1,332 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 118%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [1363] Hares et al. (2018), Telomere dynamics in wild banded mongooses: Evaluating longitudinal and quasi-longitudinal markers of senescence (PubMed)
- [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
- [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
- [0680] Wootton (1987), The effects of body mass, phylogeny, habitat, and trophic level on mammalian age at first reproduction
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 621903
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- Taxonomy ID 210652
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