AnAge entry for Dipodomys heermanni
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Heteromyidae
Genus: Dipodomys
- Species
- Dipodomys heermanni
- Common name
- Heermann's kangaroo rat
- Synonyms
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Perodipus streatori
- Maximum longevity
- 8.3 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
- Female sexual maturity
- 53 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 31 days
- Weaning
- 31 days
- Litter size
- 3.1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 3.91 g
- Weight at weaning
- 28.1 g
- Adult weight
- 65 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 89%
- Typical body temperature
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.4080 W
- Body mass
- 63.3 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.006445 W/g
- [1308] Myhrvold et al. (2015), An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles
- [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
- [0538] Don Wilson and Sue Ruff (1999), The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [0680] Wootton (1987), The effects of body mass, phylogeny, habitat, and trophic level on mammalian age at first reproduction
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- ITIS 180239
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- Taxonomy ID 10018
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