AnAge entry for Macropus parma
Classification (HAGRID: 02532)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Macropodidae
Genus: Macropus
- Species
- Macropus parma
- Common name
- Parma wallaby
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 15.9 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- High
- Observations
In the wild these animals live about 8 years [0542]. In captivity one specimen lived 15.9 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 424 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 620 days
- Gestation
- 34 days
- Weaning
- 303 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1.3
- Inter-litter interval
- 213 days
- Weight at birth
- 0.5067 g
- Weight at weaning
- 754 g
- Adult weight
- 4,250 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.01 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 90%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
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
- [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
- [0542] Bernhard Grzimek (1990), Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
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- ITIS 552736
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- Taxonomy ID 413582
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