AnAge entry for Zaglossus bruijni
Classification (HAGRID: 02624)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Monotremata
Family: Tachyglossidae
Genus: Zaglossus
- Species
- Zaglossus bruijni
- Common name
- Western long-beaked echidna, or Long-nosed echidna
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 41.2 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Tiny
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One captive specimen at the Toronga Zoo in Sydney was still alive at 41.2 years of age [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- Male sexual maturity
- Incubation
- 10 days
- Weaning
- 152 days
- Clutch size
- 1 (oviparous)
- Clutches per year
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at hatching
- Weight at weaning
- 400 g
- Adult weight
- 7,500 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 215%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 304ºK or 30.8ºC or 87.4ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 6.4930 W
- Body mass
- 11848.6 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.000548 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)
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [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 552523
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- ADW account
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 33543
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