AnAge entry for Conilurus penicillatus
Classification (HAGRID: 03028)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Conilurus
- Species
- Conilurus penicillatus
- Common name
- Brush-tailed rabbit rat
- Synonyms
- Hapalotis hemileucurus, Hapalotis melanura, Conilurus melibius
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 4.5 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One captive specimen lived 4.5 years before being released in the wild [0671]. Anecdotal reports suggesting these animals live more than 5 years [0610], albeit plausible, have not been confirmed.
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 35 days
- Weaning
- 31 days
- Litter size
- 2 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 144 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 43%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 309ºK or 35.9ºC or 96.6ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.9080 W
- Body mass
- 213.2 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.004259 W/g
References
- [1032] McNab (2008), An analysis of the factors that influence the level and scaling of mammalian BMR (PubMed)
- [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
- [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
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 585200
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 10127
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