AnAge entry for Setifer setosus
Classification (HAGRID: 01893)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Afrosoricida
Family: Tenrecidae
Genus: Setifer
- Species
- Setifer setosus
- Common name
- Greater hedgehog tenrec
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 14.1 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
Gestation in this animal varies with ambient temperature, being shorter when temperatures are higher [0434].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 198 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 258 days
- Gestation
- 54 days
- Weaning
- 24 days
- Litter size
- 3 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 24.7 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 225 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0419 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 126%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 305ºK or 32.2ºC or 90.0ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.5730 W
- Body mass
- 427.6 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.001340 W/g
References
- [1136] Gomes et al. (2011), Comparative biology of mammalian telomeres: hypotheses on ancestral states and the roles of telomeres in longevity determination (PubMed)
- [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
- [0678] Symonds (1999), Life histories of the Insectivora: the role of phylogeny, metabolism, and sex differences
- [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
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 633514
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 319819
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