AnAge entry for Peromyscus polionotus
Classification (HAGRID: 02918)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Peromyscus
- Species
- Peromyscus polionotus
- Common name
- Oldfield mouse
- Synonyms
- Peromyscus polionotus polionotus, Peromyscus polionotus ammobates, Peromyscus polionotus phasma, Peromyscus polionotus allophrys, Peromyscus polionotus trissyllepsis, Peromyscus polionotus niveiventris, Mus polionotus, Peromyscus subgriseus baliolus, Peromyscus phasma, Hesperomys niveiventris, Peromyscus polionotus albifrons, Peromyscus polionotus colemani, Peromyscus polionotus decoloratus, Peromyscus polionotus leucocephalus, Peromyscus leucocephalus, Peromyscus polionotus lucubrans, Peromyscus polionotus peninsularis, Peromyscus polionotus rhoadsi, Peromyscus subgriseus rhoadsi, Peromyscus polionotus subgriseus, Sitomys viveiventris subgriseus, Peromyscus polionotus griseobracatus, Sitomys niveiventris subgriseus, Peromyscus polionotus sumneri
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 5.5 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One specimen lived 5.5 years in captivity [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 28 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 24 days
- Weaning
- 21 days
- Litter size
- 3.8 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 3
- Inter-litter interval
- 25 days
- Weight at birth
- 1.68 g
- Weight at weaning
- 6.72 g
- Adult weight
- 14 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0558 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 75%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.1200 W
- Body mass
- 12.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.010000 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
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
- [0773] PeroBase
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 180290
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- Taxonomy ID 42413
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