AnAge entry for Reithrodontomys megalotis
Classification (HAGRID: 02928)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Reithrodontomys
- Species
- Reithrodontomys megalotis
- Common name
- Western harvest mouse
- Synonyms
- Reithrodontomys amoles, Reithrodontomys arizonensis, Reithrodontomys aztecus, Rhithrodontomys catalinae, Reithrodontomys dychei, Rhithrodontomys peninsulae, Reithrodontomys saturatus alticolus, Reithrodontomys megalotis distichlis, Reithrodontomys megalotis limicola, Reithrodontomys dychei nebrascensis, Reithrodontomys megalotis ravus, Reithrodontomys megalotis santacruzae, Reithrodontomys megalotis arizonensis
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- Not yet established
- Observations
Little is known about the longevity of these animals, but one specimen lived at least 3.6 years in captivity [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 107 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 80 days
- Gestation
- 23 days
- Weaning
- 21 days
- Litter size
- 3.3 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 4.5
- Inter-litter interval
- 28 days
- Weight at birth
- 1.33 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 11 g
- Postnatal growth rate
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 310ºK or 36.8ºC or 98.2ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.1300 W
- Body mass
- 9.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.014444 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
- [0680] Wootton (1987), The effects of body mass, phylogeny, habitat, and trophic level on mammalian age at first reproduction
External Resources
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- ITIS 180343
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- Taxonomy ID 44234
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