AnAge entry for Perognathus parvus
Classification (HAGRID: 03004)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Heteromyidae
Genus: Perognathus
- Species
- Perognathus parvus
- Common name
- Great Basin pocket mouse
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 5.8 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One captive specimen lived 5.8 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 100 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 24 days
- Weaning
- 23 days
- Litter size
- 4.8 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1.6
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 1.5 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 20.1 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 75%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.1600 W
- Body mass
- 19.2 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.008333 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
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0538] Don Wilson and Sue Ruff (1999), The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals
- [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
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 180269
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- Taxonomy ID 38671
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