AnAge entry for Cavia tschudii
Classification (HAGRID: 02859)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Caviidae
Genus: Cavia
- Species
- Cavia tschudii
- Common name
- Montane guinea pig
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 6.3 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 62 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 77 days
- Gestation
- 64 days
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 1.9 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 5
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 637.5 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 48%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [1308] Myhrvold et al. (2015), An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles
- [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
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0680] Wootton (1987), The effects of body mass, phylogeny, habitat, and trophic level on mammalian age at first reproduction
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 584714
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- Taxonomy ID 143287
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