AnAge entry for Sorex ornatus
Classification (HAGRID: 03230)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Soricomorpha
Family: Soricidae
Genus: Sorex
- Species
- Sorex ornatus
- Common name
- Ornate shrew
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- Not yet established
- Observations
Little is known about the longevity of these animals. One anecdotal report, which may be true, claimed that wild-caught young female lived 1.5 years in captivity [0589].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 21 days
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 5 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 0.5 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 5.6 g
- Postnatal growth rate
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.2920 W
- Body mass
- 9.7 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.030103 W/g
References
- [0036] Savage et al. (2004), The predominance of quarter-power scaling in biology
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0538] Don Wilson and Sue Ruff (1999), The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [0589] The Shrew Site
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 179952
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 126318
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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