AnAge entry for Aepyprymnus rufescens
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Potoroidae
Genus: Aepyprymnus
- Species
- Aepyprymnus rufescens
- Common name
- Rufous 'rat'-kangaroo
- Maximum longevity
- 12.8 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Tiny
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
- Female sexual maturity
- 333 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 380 days
- Gestation
- 23 days
- Weaning
- 162 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 3
- Inter-litter interval
- 115 days
- Weight at birth
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 3,250 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 76%
- Typical body temperature
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 5.9780 W
- Body mass
- 2820.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.002120 W/g
- [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
- [0730] Smith et al. (2003), Body mass of late Quaternary mammals
- [0522] Fisher et al. (2001), The ecological basis of life history variation in marsupials
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
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- ITIS 552698
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- Taxonomy ID 38598
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