AnAge entry for Martes americana
Classification (HAGRID: 02182)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Carnivora
Family: Mustelidae
Genus: Martes
- Species
- Martes americana
- Common name
- American marten
- Synonyms
- Mustela americanus
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 17.8 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Tiny
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
Including the pre-implantation time, the total gestation time can take between 180 and 274 days. Record longevity in captivity is 17.8 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Gestation
- 28 days
- Weaning
- 46 days
- Litter size
- 3 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at birth
- 30 g
- Weight at weaning
- 392 g
- Adult weight
- 884 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 129%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 311ºK or 38.0ºC or 100.4ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 3.5790 W
- Body mass
- 966.5 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.003703 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
- [0538] Don Wilson and Sue Ruff (1999), The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals
- [0441] William Burt et al. (1998), A Field Guide to Mammals
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [0680] Wootton (1987), The effects of body mass, phylogeny, habitat, and trophic level on mammalian age at first reproduction
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 180559
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9660
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