AnAge entry for Suncus murinus
Classification (HAGRID: 03235)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Soricomorpha
Family: Soricidae
Genus: Suncus
- Species
- Suncus murinus
- Common name
- Asian house shrew
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 3.2 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
In the lab these animals live up to 3 years (Emilie Rissman, pers. comm.). One captive specimen lived 3.2 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 36 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 36 days
- Gestation
- 30 days
- Weaning
- 19 days
- Litter size
- 3 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 9.8
- Inter-litter interval
- 56 days
- Weight at birth
- 2.68 g
- Weight at weaning
- 33.35 g
- Adult weight
- 45.9 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0643 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 36%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 312ºK or 38.7ºC or 101.7ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.4030 W
- Body mass
- 39.7 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.010151 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
- [0481] Austad (2005), Diverse aging rates in metazoans: targets for functional genomics (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
- [0118] Fukuda et al. (1991), Age-associated and cell-type specific changes in NGF requirement for neurite regeneration from trigeminal ganglion cells of the shrew (Suncus murinus) (PubMed)
- [0119] Yamaguchi and Yamagata (1991), Serotonergic ligand binding in aging brain of experimental animals (PubMed)
- [0542] Bernhard Grzimek (1990), Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals
- [0117] Yamaguchi and Yamaguchi (1987), A new experimental animal for the study of age-related changes in serotonergic neuronal activity in the brain cortex (PubMed)
- [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 179961
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9378
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