AnAge entry for Podomys floridanus
Classification (HAGRID: 02925)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Podomys
- Species
- Podomys floridanus
- Common name
- Florida mouse
- Synonyms
- Peromyscus floridanus, Hesperomys floridanus
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 7.4 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 434
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One captive specimen reportedly lived 7.4 years [0434].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 40 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 23 days
- Weaning
- 25 days
- Litter size
- 2.5 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- 33 days
- Weight at birth
- 2.4 g
- Weight at weaning
- 12.5 g
- Adult weight
- 32 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 89%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.2880 W
- Body mass
- 30.8 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.009351 W/g
References
- [1308] Myhrvold et al. (2015), An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles
- [0036] Savage et al. (2004), The predominance of quarter-power scaling in biology
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [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
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 180339
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- ADW account
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 56323
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