AnAge entry for Tragulus javanicus
Classification (HAGRID: 02067)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Tragulidae
Genus: Tragulus
- Species
- Tragulus javanicus
- Common name
- Lesser mouse-deer
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 14 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
In captivity, these animals live up to 14 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 167 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 167 days
- Gestation
- 144 days
- Weaning
- 84 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 370 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 2,850 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 84%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 312ºK or 38.4ºC or 101.1ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 4.8830 W
- Body mass
- 1615.5 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.003023 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
- [1032] McNab (2008), An analysis of the factors that influence the level and scaling of mammalian BMR (PubMed)
- [0951] Jurado et al. (2008), Irregular tooth wear and longevity in captive wild ruminants: a pilot survey of necropsy reports (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
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0677] Saether and Gordon (1994), The adaptive significance of reproductive strategies in ungulates (PubMed)
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [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
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 625034
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9849
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