AnAge entry for Xerospermophilus mohavensis
Classification (HAGRID: 03190)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Xerospermophilus
- Species
- Xerospermophilus mohavensis
- Common name
- Mohave ground squirrel
- Synonyms
- Spermophilus mohavensis
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 7.8 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
Record longevity in captivity is 7.8 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 24 days
- Weaning
- 36 days
- Litter size
- 6 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 4.5 g
- Weight at weaning
- 30 g
- Adult weight
- 150 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 74%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 310ºK or 37.0ºC or 98.6ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.6290 W
- Body mass
- 240.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.002621 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
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 930310
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 99847
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