AnAge entry for Dasyurus maculatus
Classification (HAGRID: 02461)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Dasyuromorphia
Family: Dasyuridae
Genus: Dasyurus
- Species
- Dasyurus maculatus
- Common name
- Tiger quoll, or Australian tiger cat
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 6.8 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
Females over 3 years of age produce no litters but males over 5 years old can still be fertile. Although these animals reach sexual maturity in about one year, they do not become fully grown until about two years of age [0509]. In the wild, these animals do not typically live more than 3 years. One animal lived 6.8 years in captivity [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 340 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 340 days
- Gestation
- 21 days
- Weaning
- 135 days
- Litter size
- 3 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at birth
- Weight at weaning
- 500 g
- Adult weight
- 5,500 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 37%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 310ºK or 36.9ºC or 98.4ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 3.1420 W
- Body mass
- 1782.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.001763 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)
- [0730] Smith et al. (2003), Body mass of late Quaternary mammals
- [0509] Jones et al. (2001), Dasyurus maculatus
- [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 552609
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9281
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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- Internet
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