AnAge entry for Tachyoryctes splendens
Classification (HAGRID: 03198)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Spalacidae
Genus: Tachyoryctes
- Species
- Tachyoryctes splendens
- Common name
- East African mole rat
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- Not yet established
- Observations
In the wild, these animals live about one year and up to 3.1 years [0434]. And one captive specimen lived 3.8 years [0671]. Without further longevity studies, however, their maximum longevity must be classified as unknown.
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 150 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 180 days
- Gestation
- 40 days
- Weaning
- 35 days
- Litter size
- 1.5 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2.1
- Inter-litter interval
- 173 days
- Weight at birth
- 20 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 220 g
- Postnatal growth rate
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 309ºK or 35.9ºC or 96.6ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.8560 W
- Body mass
- 197.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.004345 W/g
References
- [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
- [0676] Purvis and Harvey (1995), Mammal life-history evolution: a comparative test of Charnov's model
- [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
External Resources
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- ITIS 632771
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- Taxonomy ID 49445
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