AnAge entry for Perognathus flavus
Classification (HAGRID: 03001)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Heteromyidae
Genus: Perognathus
- Species
- Perognathus flavus
- Common name
- Silky pocket mouse
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- Not yet established
- Observations
Little is known about the longevity of these animals, but they have been known to live up to 4.9 years [0520].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 26 days
- Weaning
- 30 days
- Litter size
- 4 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 8 g
- Postnatal growth rate
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 308ºK or 34.6ºC or 94.3ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.0970 W
- Body mass
- 8.3 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.011687 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
- [0538] Don Wilson and Sue Ruff (1999), The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [0520] Philip Altman and Dorothy Dittmer (1962), Growth including reproduction and morphological development
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 180262
- Animal Diversity Web
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- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 37443
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