AnAge entry for Eliomys quercinus
Classification (HAGRID: 02981)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Gliridae
Genus: Eliomys
- Species
- Eliomys quercinus
- Common name
- Garden dormouse
- Synonyms
- Eliomys cincticauda, Eliomys gymnesicus, Eliomys hamiltoni, Eliomys hortualis, Myoxus nitela, Eliomys ophiusae, Eliomys pallidus, Eliomys sardus, Eliomys quercinus r?ticus, Eliomys quercinus gotthardus, Eliomys quercinus jurrasicus, Eliomys nitela lusitanica, Myoxus nitela amori, Eliomys quercinus superans
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 5.5 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One captive animal lived to the age of 5.5 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Gestation
- 23 days
- Weaning
- 30 days
- Litter size
- 5 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1.2
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 82.5 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0409 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 57%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [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
- [0542] Bernhard Grzimek (1990), Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
- [0570] glirarium.org
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 584970
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- ADW account
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 53277
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