AnAge entry for Amphiuma means
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia (Taxon entry)
Order: Caudata
Family: Amphiumidae
Genus: Amphiuma
- Species
- Amphiuma means
- Common name
- Two-toed amphiuma
- Synonyms
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Amphiuma means means, Sireni simile, Axolotus lacertinus, Chrysodonta larvaeformis, Amphiuma didactylum, Sirenoides didactylum
- Maximum longevity
- 27 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 485
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
- Female sexual maturity
- 1,460 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 1,095 days
- Incubation
- 150 days
- Metamorphosis
- Clutch size
- 200 (oviparous)
- Adult weight
- 200.967 g
- Typical body temperature
- 288ºK or 14.9ºC or 58.7ºF
- Resting metabolic rate
- 0.0090 W
- Body mass
- 199.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.000045 W/g
- [0037] Gillooly et al. (2001), Effects of size and temperature on metabolic rate (PubMed)
- [0485] Andrew Snider and J. Bowler (1992), Longevity of Reptiles and Amphibians in North American Collections, Second Edition
- [0749] AmphibiaWeb
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- Taxonomy ID 8312
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