AnAge entry for Galerella sanguinea
Classification (HAGRID: 02145)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Carnivora
Family: Herpestidae
Genus: Galerella
- Species
- Galerella sanguinea
- Common name
- Slender mongoose
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 12.6 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One specimen lived 12.6 years old in captivity [0671]. Maximum longevity could be underestimated, though.
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Gestation
- 65 days
- Weaning
- 55 days
- Litter size
- 2 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2
- Inter-litter interval
- 182 days
- Weight at birth
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 500 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 99%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 312ºK or 38.7ºC or 101.7ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 2.2020 W
- Body mass
- 519.6 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.004238 W/g
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
- [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)
- [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
External Resources
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- ITIS 622010
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- Taxonomy ID 210644
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