AnAge entry for Catagonus wagneri
Classification (HAGRID: 02062)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Tayassuidae
Genus: Catagonus
- Species
- Catagonus wagneri
- Common name
- Chacoan peccary
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- Not yet established
- Observations
Not much is known about the longevity of these animals. One captive specimen was still living at 14.7 years of age [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 1,096 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 152 days
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 2.4 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 610 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 34,750 g
- Postnatal growth rate
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
- [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 625021
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 51154
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