AnAge entry for Bettongia lesueur
Classification (HAGRID: 02567)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Potoroidae
Genus: Bettongia
- Species
- Bettongia lesueur
- Common name
- Burrowing bettong
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- Not yet established
- Observations
Little is known about the longevity of these animals, though one wild born specimen lived 9.9 years in captivity [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 218 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 21 days
- Weaning
- 165 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 3
- Inter-litter interval
- 117 days
- Weight at birth
- 0.317 g
- Weight at weaning
- 300 g
- Adult weight
- 1,300 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0178 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
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
- [0522] Fisher et al. (2001), The ecological basis of life history variation in marsupials
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 552700
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 65621
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- Images
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