AnAge entry for Felis nigripes
Classification (HAGRID: 02113)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Felis
- Species
- Felis nigripes
- Common name
- Black-footed cat
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 15.6 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 445 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 434 days
- Gestation
- 66 days
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 2 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 4
- Inter-litter interval
- 228 days
- Weight at birth
- 72.4 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 2,125 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 98%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
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
- [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
- [0550] Tigerhomes.org
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 183800
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 61379
- Entrez
- Search all databases
- Ageing Literature
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- Images
- Google Image search
- Internet
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