AnAge entry for Myodes rufocanus
Classification (HAGRID: 02899)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Myodes
- Species
- Myodes rufocanus
- Common name
- Gray red-backed vole
- Synonyms
- Clethrionomys rufocanus, Clethrionomys sikotanensis, Evotomys arsenjevi, Evotomys bedfordiae, Evotomys irkutensis, Arvicola kamtnschaticus, Evotomys kolymensis, Evotomys latastei, Neoaschizomys sikotanensis, Arvicola wosnessenskii, Clethrionomys yesomontanus, Craseomys rufocanus bargusinensis, Clethrionomys rufocanus kurilensis
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- Not yet established
- Observations
Little is known about the longevity of these animals, but one wild born specimen was about 3.3 years old when it died in captivity [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 62 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 4.1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2.8
- Inter-litter interval
- 30 days
- Weight at birth
- 2.25 g
- Weight at weaning
- 10 g
- Adult weight
- 29.5 g
- Postnatal growth rate
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.3210 W
- Body mass
- 27.2 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.011801 W/g
References
- [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
- [0036] Savage et al. (2004), The predominance of quarter-power scaling in biology
- [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
- [0680] Wootton (1987), The effects of body mass, phylogeny, habitat, and trophic level on mammalian age at first reproduction
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