AnAge entry for Myopus schisticolor

Classification (HAGRID: 02901)

Taxonomy: Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Chordata
        Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
            Order: Rodentia
                Family: Cricetidae
                    Genus: Myopus
Species: Myopus schisticolor
Common name: Wood lemming
Synonyms: Myopus middendorfii, Myopus morulus, Myopus saianicus, Myopus thayeri, Myopus schisticolor vinogradovi

Maximum longevity: Not yet established
Observations: In the wild, these animals probably do not live more than one year [0542]. Their longevity in captivity has not been studied in detail, though one specimen lived 2.1 years [0671].

[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
[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
[0542] Bernhard Grzimek (1990), Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals
[0680] Wootton (1987), The effects of body mass, phylogeny, habitat, and trophic level on mammalian age at first reproduction