AnAge entry for Sigmodon hispidus
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Sigmodon
- Species
- Sigmodon hispidus
- Common name
- Hispid cotton rat
- Synonyms
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Sigmodon berlandieri, Arvicola texiana, Sigmodon hispidus alfredi, Sigmodon hispidus confinis, Sigmodon hispidus eremicus, Sigmodon hispidus exsputus, Sigmodon hispidus floridanus, Sigmodon hispidus insulicola, Sigmodon hispidus komareki, Sigmodon hispidus littoralis, Sigmodon hispidus pallidus, Sigmodon hispidus solus, Sigmodon hispidus spadicipygus, Sigmodon hispidus virginianus
- Maximum longevity
- 5.2 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
- Female sexual maturity
- 40 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 40 days
- Gestation
- 27 days
- Weaning
- 15 days
- Litter size
- 5 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 6.7
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 6.2 g
- Weight at weaning
- 19.8 g
- Adult weight
- 185 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0362 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 47%
- Typical body temperature
- 311ºK or 38.1ºC or 100.6ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 1.0850 W
- Body mass
- 159.6 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.006798 W/g
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- [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
- [0538] Don Wilson and Sue Ruff (1999), The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals
- [0441] William Burt et al. (1998), A Field Guide to Mammals
- [0360] Robel et al. (1996), Environmental, age, and sex effects on cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus) hematology (PubMed)
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [0361] Lochmiller et al. (1992), Gut associated lymphoid tissue in the cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus) and its response to protein restriction (PubMed)
- [0542] Bernhard Grzimek (1990), Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals
- [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
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- ITIS 180349
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- Taxonomy ID 42415
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