AnAge entry for Bettongia gaimardi
Classification (HAGRID: 02566)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Potoroidae
Genus: Bettongia
- Species
- Bettongia gaimardi
- Common name
- Tasmanian bettong
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- Not yet established
- Observations
Not much is known about the longevity of these animals. One animal was reportedly still living after 11.8 years in captivity [0434], which is possible but unverified. Record longevity in captivity, however, belongs to one male specimen that lived 8.3 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 252 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 272 days
- Gestation
- 20 days
- Weaning
- 161 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- 107 days
- Weight at birth
- 0.307 g
- Weight at weaning
- 789 g
- Adult weight
- 1,725 g
- Postnatal growth rate
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 309ºK or 35.6ºC or 96.1ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 3.5780 W
- Body mass
- 1385.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.002583 W/g
References
- [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)
- [0522] Fisher et al. (2001), The ecological basis of life history variation in marsupials
- [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 552699
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- Taxonomy ID 223568
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