AnAge entry for Onychomys leucogaster
Classification (HAGRID: 02910)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Onychomys
- Species
- Onychomys leucogaster
- Common name
- Northern grasshopper mouse
- Synonyms
- Onychomys arcticeps, Onychomys fuliginosus, Onychomys longipes, Mus missouriensis, Onychomys ruidosae, Onychomys leucogaster albescens, Onychomys leucogaster breviauritus, Onychomys leucogaster brevicaudus, Onychomys leucogaster capitulatus, Onychomys leucogriseus fuscogriseus, Onychomys leucogaster melanophrys, Onychomys melanophrys pallescens, Onychomys leucogaster pallidus, Onychomys leucogaster utahensis
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 5.6 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Tiny
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
Females can reproduce for up to 3 years [0434]. One specimen lived 5.6 years in captivity [0671]. Various age-related diseases, such as cancer and cardiovascular disease, have been observed in old animals [0965].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 100 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 114 days
- Gestation
- 31 days
- Weaning
- 23 days
- Litter size
- 4 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2.5
- Inter-litter interval
- 32 days
- Weight at birth
- 2.6 g
- Weight at weaning
- 13.1 g
- Adult weight
- 32.5 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0634 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 67%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [0671] Richard Weigl (2005), Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [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
- [0542] Bernhard Grzimek (1990), Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
- [0965] O'Farrell and Cosgrove (1975), Longevity and age-related lesions in a laboratory colony of grasshopper mice, Onychomys leucogaster
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- ITIS 180382
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- Taxonomy ID 38668
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