AnAge entry for Heliosciurus rufobrachium
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Heliosciurus
- Species
- Heliosciurus rufobrachium
- Common name
- Red-legged sun squirrel
- Maximum longevity
- 8.7 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
- Female sexual maturity
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 2.7 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 326.5 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 73%
- Typical body temperature
- 309ºK or 36.0ºC or 96.8ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.7440 W
- Body mass
- 230.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.003235 W/g
- [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
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- ITIS 632369
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- Taxonomy ID 1096448
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