AnAge entry for Georychus capensis
Classification (HAGRID: 02846)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Bathyergidae
Genus: Georychus
- Species
- Georychus capensis
- Common name
- Cape mole-rat
- Synonyms
- Georychus buffonii, Georychus leucops, Georychus yatesi, Georychus capensis canescens
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 11.2 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Tiny
- Data quality
- Questionable
- Observations
In the wild, these animals have been reported to live up to 3 years [0434]. One captive specimen lived 11.2 years at the Cincinnati Zoo [0671]. Very few specimens have been kept in captivity and thus this species could be considerably longer lived.
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 304 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 304 days
- Gestation
- 44 days
- Weaning
- 17 days
- Litter size
- 5 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 8.4 g
- Weight at weaning
- 36 g
- Adult weight
- 181 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 103%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 310ºK or 36.4ºC or 97.5ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.6370 W
- Body mass
- 193.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.003301 W/g
References
- [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
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 584675
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 10177
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