AnAge entry for Tupaia belangeri
Classification (HAGRID: 03201)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Scandentia
Family: Tupaiidae
Genus: Tupaia
- Species
- Tupaia belangeri
- Common name
- Northern tree shrew
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 11.1 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One captive specimen lived for 11.1 years [0671]. There are anecdotal reports of animals living up to 14 years, but these are unconfirmed.
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 122 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 122 days
- Gestation
- 46 days
- Weaning
- 36 days
- Litter size
- 2 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 7.5
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 10 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 200 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0351 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 101%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 312ºK or 38.8ºC or 101.8ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- Not yet available
References
- [1308] Myhrvold et al. (2015), An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles
- [1103] Lazic (2012), Modeling hippocampal neurogenesis across the lifespan in seven species (PubMed)
- [0605] Keuker et al. (2005), Aging is accompanied by a subfield-specific reduction of serotonergic fibers in the tree shrew hippocampal formation (PubMed)
- [0671] Richard Weigl (2005), Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0730] Smith et al. (2003), Body mass of late Quaternary mammals
- [1066] Refinetti (1992), Analysis of the circadian rhythm of body temperature
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 573217
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- Taxonomy ID 37347
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