AnAge entry for Chaetophractus villosus
Classification (HAGRID: 02439)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Cingulata
Family: Dasypodidae
Genus: Chaetophractus
- Species
- Chaetophractus villosus
- Common name
- Large hairy armadillo
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 25.2 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
There is an unverified claim of one captive animal living over 30 years.
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 273 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 273 days
- Gestation
- 67 days
- Weaning
- 56 days
- Litter size
- 2 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 128 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 3,000 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0207 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 151%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 308ºK or 35.1ºC or 95.2ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 4.5080 W
- Body mass
- 4540.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.000993 W/g
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
- [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)
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [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
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 624897
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 29080
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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