AnAge entry for Mus minutoides
Classification (HAGRID: 03061)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Mus
- Species
- Mus minutoides
- Common name
- Southern African pygmy mouse, or Pygmy mouse
- Synonyms
- Mus minimus
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 4.3 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One captive specimen lived 4.3 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 60 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 77 days
- Gestation
- 20 days
- Weaning
- 21 days
- Litter size
- 4.3 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 4
- Inter-litter interval
- 31 days
- Weight at birth
- 0.97 g
- Weight at weaning
- 3.3 g
- Adult weight
- 7.2 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0832 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 65%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 309ºK or 36.3ºC or 97.3ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.1290 W
- Body mass
- 8.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.016125 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)
- [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
- [0002] Caleb Finch (1990), Longevity, Senescence, and the Genome
- [0542] Bernhard Grzimek (1990), Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 585393
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 10105
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