AnAge entry for Procyon cancrivorus
Classification (HAGRID: 02245)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Carnivora
Family: Procyonidae
Genus: Procyon
- Species
- Procyon cancrivorus
- Common name
- Crab-eating raccoon
- Synonyms
- Ursus cancrivorus
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 19 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One captive specimen lived for 19 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Gestation
- 63 days
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 3 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 71 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 6,270 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 102%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 310ºK or 37.0ºC or 98.6ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 2.5880 W
- Body mass
- 1160.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.002231 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
- [0420] White and Seymour (2003), Mammalian basal metabolic rate is proportional to body mass2/3 (PubMed)
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [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
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 621967
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 92522
- Entrez
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