AnAge entry for Setonix brachyurus
Classification (HAGRID: 02545)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Macropodidae
Genus: Setonix
- Species
- Setonix brachyurus
- Common name
- Quokka
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 13.8 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
These animals live over 10 years in the wild. In captivity they live up to 13.8 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 252 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 389 days
- Gestation
- 26 days
- Weaning
- 190 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1.4
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at birth
- 0.404 g
- Weight at weaning
- 500 g
- Adult weight
- 3,500 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0081 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 81%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 4.6950 W
- Body mass
- 2702.3 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.001737 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
- [0522] Fisher et al. (2001), The ecological basis of life history variation in marsupials
- [0249] Harman and Moore (1999), Number of neurons in the retinal ganglion cell layer of the quokka wallaby do not change throughout life (PubMed)
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0250] Fleming et al. (1996), Development and ageing of the RPE in a marsupial, the quokka (PubMed)
- [0251] Zhang and Augusteyn (1994), Ageing of glutathione reductase in the lens (PubMed)
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
- [0252] Stanley et al. (1975), Comparison of doubling numbers attained by cultured animal cells with life span of species (PubMed)
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 552754
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- Taxonomy ID 30670
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