AnAge entry for Paraxerus cepapi
Classification (HAGRID: 03145)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Paraxerus
- Species
- Paraxerus cepapi
- Common name
- Smith's bush squirrel
- Synonyms
- Paraxerus cepate
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- Not yet established
- Observations
Little is known about the longevity of these animals, but one specimen lived 9.6 years in captivity [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 185 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 57 days
- Weaning
- 40 days
- Litter size
- 2 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2
- Inter-litter interval
- 60 days
- Weight at birth
- 12.88 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 216 g
- Postnatal growth rate
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 312ºK or 39.1ºC or 102.4ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.8110 W
- Body mass
- 223.6 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.003627 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
- [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
- [0680] Wootton (1987), The effects of body mass, phylogeny, habitat, and trophic level on mammalian age at first reproduction
External Resources
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- ITIS 632395
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- Taxonomy ID 47973
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