AnAge entry for Cynictis penicillata
Classification (HAGRID: 02143)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Carnivora
Family: Herpestidae
Genus: Cynictis
- Species
- Cynictis penicillata
- Common name
- Yellow mongoose
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 15.2 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 730 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 56 days
- Weaning
- 61 days
- Litter size
- 2 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at birth
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 598.5 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 117%
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
- [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 621887
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 41010
- Entrez
- Search all databases
- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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- Internet
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