AnAge entry for Erinaceus concolor
Classification (HAGRID: 02584)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Erinaceomorpha
Family: Erinaceidae
Genus: Erinaceus
- Species
- Erinaceus concolor
- Common name
- Eastern European hedgehog
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 7 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Tiny
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One specimen lived for 7 years in captivity [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 213 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 253 days
- Gestation
- 35 days
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 4.5 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1.5
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 22 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 719 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 52%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 308ºK or 35.2ºC or 95.4ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 1.9370 W
- Body mass
- 822.7 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.002354 W/g
References
- [1308] Myhrvold et al. (2015), An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles
- [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)
- [0678] Symonds (1999), Life histories of the Insectivora: the role of phylogeny, metabolism, and sex differences
- [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 633539
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 37316
- Entrez
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