AnAge entry for Neotoma cinerea
Classification (HAGRID: 02903)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Neotoma
- Species
- Neotoma cinerea
- Common name
- Bushy-tailed woodrat
- Synonyms
- Neotoma arizonae, Neotoma cinnamomea, Myoxus drummondii, Neotoma grangeri, Neotoma occidentalis, Neotoma orolestes, Neotoma saxamans, Teonoma cinerea acraea, Neotoma cinerea alticola, Neotoma fuscus apicalis, Neotoma cinerea columbiana, Neotoma occidentalis fusca, Neotoma cinerea lucida, Neotoma cinerea macrodon, Neotoma cinerea pulla, Teonoma cinerea acraia
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- Not yet established
- Observations
Little is known about the longevity of these animals, but one captive specimen lived for 5.8 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 353 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 30 days
- Weaning
- 27 days
- Litter size
- 3.68 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2
- Inter-litter interval
- 30 days
- Weight at birth
- 13.5 g
- Weight at weaning
- 107 g
- Adult weight
- 335.5 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0442 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 1.1520 W
- Body mass
- 256.5 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.004491 W/g
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
- [0036] Savage et al. (2004), The predominance of quarter-power scaling in biology
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0623] Smith (1997), Neotoma cinerea
- [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
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
External Resources
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- ITIS 180371
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- Taxonomy ID 105147
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