AnAge entry for Dasyurus hallucatus
Classification (HAGRID: 02460)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Dasyuromorphia
Family: Dasyuridae
Genus: Dasyurus
- Species
- Dasyurus hallucatus
- Common name
- Northern quoll
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 5.9 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
This species can exhibit semelparity. In tropical savannah, males die off after mating and exhibit weight loss, fur loss, parasite infestation, increased testosterone levels and anaemia, though not increased corticosteroid levels [0781]. One captive specimen lived 5.9 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 315 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 315 days
- Gestation
- Weaning
- 90 days
- Litter size
- 6.8 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at birth
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 525 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 46%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 309ºK or 35.9ºC or 96.6ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 1.5010 W
- Body mass
- 571.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.002629 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)
- [0781] Oakwood et al. (2001), Semelparity in a large marsupial (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
- [0542] Bernhard Grzimek (1990), Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 552608
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9280
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