AnAge entry for Isoodon macrourus
Classification (HAGRID: 02629)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Peramelemorphia
Family: Peramelidae
Genus: Isoodon
- Species
- Isoodon macrourus
- Common name
- Northern brown bandicoot
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 6.8 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
Among all mammals, this animal has the shortest gestation period recorded. One captive animal lived for 6.8 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 122 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 200 days
- Gestation
- 12 days
- Weaning
- 60 days
- Litter size
- 4 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2.7
- Inter-litter interval
- 58 days
- Weight at birth
- 0.1883 g
- Weight at weaning
- 100 g
- Adult weight
- 1,600 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0145 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 45%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 309ºK or 35.9ºC or 96.6ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 3.2020 W
- Body mass
- 1551.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.002064 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)
- [0730] Smith et al. (2003), Body mass of late Quaternary mammals
- [0522] Fisher et al. (2001), The ecological basis of life history variation in marsupials
- [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
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 552657
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 37698
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