AnAge entry for Planigale maculata
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Dasyuromorphia
Family: Dasyuridae
Genus: Planigale
- Species
- Planigale maculata
- Common name
- Pygmy planigale
- Maximum longevity
- 5.8 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
- Female sexual maturity
- 290 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 20 days
- Weaning
- 71 days
- Litter size
- 7.65 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2
- Inter-litter interval
- 91 days
- Weight at birth
- Weight at weaning
- 4.85 g
- Adult weight
- 10 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 83%
- Typical body temperature
- 308ºK or 34.5ºC or 94.1ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.0670 W
- Body mass
- 10.6 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.006321 W/g
- [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)
- [0522] Fisher et al. (2001), The ecological basis of life history variation in marsupials
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
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- ITIS 552627
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- Taxonomy ID 9297
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