AnAge entry for Mystromys albicaudatus
Classification (HAGRID: 03103)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Nesomyidae
Genus: Mystromys
- Species
- Mystromys albicaudatus
- Common name
- White-tailed mouse
- Synonyms
- Mystromys albipes, Mystromys albicaudatus fumosus
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 6.3 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One specimen lived 6.3 years in captivity [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 109 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 38 days
- Weaning
- 32 days
- Litter size
- 3 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- 36 days
- Weight at birth
- 6.5 g
- Weight at weaning
- 40 g
- Adult weight
- 106 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 63%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 306ºK or 33.0ºC or 91.4ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.7070 W
- Body mass
- 93.8 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.007537 W/g
References
- [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
- [0542] Bernhard Grzimek (1990), Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals
- [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 632756
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 56239
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