AnAge entry for Napaeozapus insignis
Classification (HAGRID: 02958)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Dipodidae
Genus: Napaeozapus
- Species
- Napaeozapus insignis
- Common name
- Woodland jumping mouse
- Synonyms
- Zapus insignis abietorum, Napaeozapus insignis frutectanus, Napaeozapus insignis algonquinensis, Napaeozapus insignis gaspensis, Zapus insignis roanensis, Napaeozapus insignis saguenayensis
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- Not yet established
- Observations
In the wild these animals live up to 4 years [0434]. Little is known about their longevity in captivity.
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 256 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 29 days
- Weaning
- 36 days
- Litter size
- 4 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1.3
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 0.9 g
- Weight at weaning
- 8.9 g
- Adult weight
- 25 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0277 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 310ºK or 37.0ºC or 98.6ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.2200 W
- Body mass
- 21.8 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.010092 W/g
References
- [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
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 180390
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 101671
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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