AnAge entry for Saguinus geoffroyi
Classification (HAGRID: 02695)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Primates (Taxon entry)
Family: Callitrichidae
Genus: Saguinus
- Species
- Saguinus geoffroyi
- Common name
- Geoffroy's tamarin
- Synonyms
- Oedipomidas salaquiensis, Jacchus spixii
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 20.5 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One wild born specimen lived 16.8 years in captivity and was about 20-21 years old when it died [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 548 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 550 days
- Gestation
- 142 days
- Weaning
- 56 days
- Litter size
- 2 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- 241 days
- Weight at birth
- 46.03 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 499.3 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 162%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 1.3050 W
- Body mass
- 225.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.005800 W/g
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
- [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
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0681] Peter Kappeler and Michael Pereira (2003), Primate Life Histories and Socioecology
- [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
- [0542] Bernhard Grzimek (1990), Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals
- [0679] Harvey and Clutton-Brock (1985), Life-history variation in primates
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 572925
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 43778
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