AnAge entry for Neotoma micropus
Classification (HAGRID: 02906)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Neotoma
- Species
- Neotoma micropus
- Common name
- Southern plains woodrat
- Synonyms
- Neotoma micropus canescens, Neotoma micropus leucophaea, Neotoma micropus littoralis, Neotoma micropus planiceps, Neotoma macropus surberi
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- Not yet established
- Observations
Not much is known about the longevity of these animals. In the wild, they have been known to live more than 2 years. One average they live about half a year with females being slightly longer lived. Captive animals have lived 3.3 years after being caught as adults [0622].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 136 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 101 days
- Gestation
- 35 days
- Weaning
- 26 days
- Litter size
- 2.51 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2.4
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 11.7 g
- Weight at weaning
- 35.6 g
- Adult weight
- 236.3 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0281 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [1308] Myhrvold et al. (2015), An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles
- [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
- [0622] Braun and Mares (1989), Neotoma micropus
- [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
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- ITIS 180376
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- Taxonomy ID 105150
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