AnAge entry for Phacochoerus africanus
Classification (HAGRID: 02055)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Suidae
Genus: Phacochoerus
- Species
- Phacochoerus africanus
- Common name
- Wart hog
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 30 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 1306
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One captive specimen lived for 30 years [1306]. This species is sometimes confused with /Phacochoerus aethiopicus/ in the literature.
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 578 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 578 days
- Gestation
- 164 days
- Weaning
- 84 days
- Litter size
- 3 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1.5
- Inter-litter interval
- 426 days
- Weight at birth
- 660 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 100,000 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 105%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [1306] Peron et al. (2019), Variation in actuarial senescence does not reflect life span variation across mammals (PubMed)
- [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
- [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
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 625008
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 41426
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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