AnAge entry for Loris tardigradus
Classification (HAGRID: 02820)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Primates (Taxon entry)
Family: Lorisidae
Genus: Loris
- Species
- Loris tardigradus
- Common name
- Red slender loris, or Slender loris
- Synonyms
- Lemur ceylonicus, Loris gracilis, Loris tardigradus tardigradus, Loris tardigradus nycticeboides, Loris lydekkerianus nycticeboides, Loris gracilis zeylanicus, Loris tardigradus parvus
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 21.6 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 1301
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One captive specimen lived 21.6 years at the Duke Lemur Center [1301].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 380 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Gestation
- 166 days
- Weaning
- 150 days
- Litter size
- 1.3 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1.5
- Inter-litter interval
- 288 days
- Weight at birth
- 11 g
- Weight at weaning
- 139 g
- Adult weight
- 238.2 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 191%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 309ºK or 35.5ºC or 95.9ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.7140 W
- Body mass
- 284.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.002514 W/g
References
- [1301] Zehr et al. (2014), Life history profiles for 27 strepsirrhine primate taxa generated using captive data from the Duke Lemur Center (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
- [0420] White and Seymour (2003), Mammalian basal metabolic rate is proportional to body mass2/3 (PubMed)
- [0681] Peter Kappeler and Michael Pereira (2003), Primate Life Histories and Socioecology
- [0467] Lindenfors (2002), Sexually antagonistic selection on primate size
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0463] Austad (1997), Small nonhuman primates as potential models of human aging (PubMed)
- [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
- [0679] Harvey and Clutton-Brock (1985), Life-history variation in primates
- [0436] Cutler (1979), Evolution of human longevity: a critical overview (PubMed)
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 572889
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9468
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