AnAge entry for Petrodromus tetradactylus
Classification (HAGRID: 02618)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Macroscelidea
Family: Macroscelididae
Genus: Petrodromus
- Species
- Petrodromus tetradactylus
- Common name
- Four-toed elephant shrew
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- Not yet established
- Observations
Pregnant females tend to abort in captivity and so there are only limited longevity studies. One wild born specimen was about 7.2 years of age when it died in captivity [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 1.2 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 31 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 210 g
- Postnatal growth rate
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 311ºK or 37.5ºC or 99.5ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.8520 W
- Body mass
- 208.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.004096 W/g
References
- [0978] Jones et al. (2009), PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals
- [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
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 584923
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- Taxonomy ID 113272
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