AnAge entry for Chironectes minimus

Classification (HAGRID: 02490)

Taxonomy: Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Chordata
        Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
            Order: Didelphimorphia
                Family: Didelphidae
                    Genus: Chironectes
Species: Chironectes minimus
Common name: Water opossum (yapok)

Maximum longevity: 3.1 years (captivity)
Source: ref. 671
Sample size: Small
Data quality: Acceptable
Observations: Among all the members of the didelphid family, this species seems to be the one that develops more rapidly. One captive specimen lived for 3.1 years [0671].

[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)
[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