AnAge entry for Prionailurus planiceps
Classification (HAGRID: 02133)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Prionailurus
- Species
- Prionailurus planiceps
- Common name
- Flat-headed cat
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 14 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One wild born specimen was about 14 years old when it died in captivity [0671]. Maximum longevity could be slightly underestimated, though, because similar species appear to live slightly longer.
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 56 days
- Weaning
- Litter size
- (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 6,750 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 74%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
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
- [0730] Smith et al. (2003), Body mass of late Quaternary mammals
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 621873
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 61403
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