AnAge entry for Hemicentetes semispinosus
Classification (HAGRID: 01890)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Afrosoricida
Family: Tenrecidae
Genus: Hemicentetes
- Species
- Hemicentetes semispinosus
- Common name
- Streaked tenrec
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 2.7 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Questionable
- Observations
One captive specimen lived 2.7 years [0671]. Maximum lifespan may be significantly underestimated and further studies are necessary.
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 35 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 59 days
- Weaning
- 21 days
- Litter size
- 4 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 11.5 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 180 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 24%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 308ºK or 35.0ºC or 95.0ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.3800 W
- Body mass
- 116.4 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.003265 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)
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [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
- [0542] Bernhard Grzimek (1990), Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals
- [0680] Wootton (1987), The effects of body mass, phylogeny, habitat, and trophic level on mammalian age at first reproduction
- [0436] Cutler (1979), Evolution of human longevity: a critical overview (PubMed)
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 633513
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 319813
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