AnAge entry for Thallomys paedulcus
Classification (HAGRID: 03091)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Thallomys
- Species
- Thallomys paedulcus
- Common name
- Acacia rat
- Synonyms
- Mus moggi, Thamnomys ruddi, Thallomys stevensoni, Thallomys zambesiana, Mus moggi acaciae, Thallomys moggi lebomboensis
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- Not yet established
- Observations
The longevity of these animals has not been studied in detail. Nonetheless, one captive specimen lived for 3.5 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 109 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 26 days
- Weaning
- 30 days
- Litter size
- 3.5 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- 26 days
- Weight at birth
- 2.65 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 80 g
- Postnatal growth rate
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 310ºK or 36.7ºC or 98.1ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.4870 W
- Body mass
- 132.4 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.003678 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
- [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
- [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 585595
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 332673
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