AnAge entry for Kerodon rupestris
Classification (HAGRID: 02864)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Caviidae
Genus: Kerodon
- Species
- Kerodon rupestris
- Common name
- Rock cavy
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 12.9 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One captive specimen was still alive at 12.9 years of age [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 151 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 75 days
- Weaning
- 35 days
- Litter size
- 1.5 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 5
- Inter-litter interval
- 86 days
- Weight at birth
- 76 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 950 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 92%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 311ºK or 38.2ºC or 100.8ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 2.0110 W
- Body mass
- 801.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.002511 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
- [1032] McNab (2008), An analysis of the factors that influence the level and scaling of mammalian BMR (PubMed)
- [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
- [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 584718
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- ADW account
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 181539
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