AnAge entry for Echymipera kalubu
Classification (HAGRID: 02626)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Peramelemorphia
Family: Peramelidae
Genus: Echymipera
- Species
- Echymipera kalubu
- Common name
- Common echymipera, or New Guinea spiny bandicoot
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- Not yet established
- Observations
Not much is known about the longevity of these animals, but one captive specimen lived for 2.7 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 13 days
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 2.1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- 120 days
- Weight at birth
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 650 g
- Postnatal growth rate
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 308ºK or 35.0ºC or 95.0ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- Not yet available
References
- [0978] Jones et al. (2009), PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals
- [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
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 552667
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 42733
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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- Internet
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