AnAge entry for Ornithorhynchus anatinus
Classification (HAGRID: 02622)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Monotremata
Family: Ornithorhynchidae
Genus: Ornithorhynchus
- Species
- Ornithorhynchus anatinus
- Common name
- Duck-billed platypus
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 22.6 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One captive specimen was at least 22.6 years old when it died [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 548 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 548 days
- Incubation
- 17 days
- Weaning
- 106 days
- Clutch size
- 2 (oviparous)
- Clutches per year
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at hatching
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 1,250 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 155%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 307ºK or 34.0ºC or 93.2ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 1.9310 W
- Body mass
- 1030.3 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.001874 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
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 552524
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9258
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