AnAge entry for Pectinator spekei
Classification (HAGRID: 02937)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Ctenodactylidae
Genus: Pectinator
- Species
- Pectinator spekei
- Common name
- Speke's pectinator
- Synonyms
- Pectinator spekei meridionalis, Pectinator spekei legerae
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- Not yet established
- Observations
Little is known about these animals, but it is estimated that they may live up to 10 years in captivity [0573]. One female lived 4 years in captivity [0434].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 374 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 1.2 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 178 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0111 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
- [0978] Jones et al. (2009), PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0573] David Macdonald (1985), The Encyclopedia of Mammals
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
External Resources
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- ITIS 573203
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