AnAge entry for Ningaui ridei
Classification (HAGRID: 02463)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Dasyuromorphia
Family: Dasyuridae
Genus: Ningaui
- Species
- Ningaui ridei
- Common name
- Wongai ningaui
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- Not yet established
- Observations
These animals are expected to live 2 years in the wild. The lack of detailed longevity studies, however, means maximum longevity is unknown.
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 290 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 14 days
- Weaning
- 91 days
- Litter size
- 6 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at birth
- 0.005 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 8.5 g
- Postnatal growth rate
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
- [0522] Fisher et al. (2001), The ecological basis of life history variation in marsupials
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 552616
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 32553
- Entrez
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