AnAge entry for Procyon lotor

Classification (HAGRID: 02246)

Taxonomy: Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Chordata
        Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
            Order: Carnivora
                Family: Procyonidae
                    Genus: Procyon
Species: Procyon lotor
Common name: Common raccoon
Synonyms: Procyon gloveralleni, Procyon maynardi, Procyon minor, Procyon lotor gloveralleni, Procyon lotor maynardi, Procyon lotor varius, Procyon lotor flavidus

Maximum longevity: 21 years (captivity)
Source: ref. 671
Sample size: Large
Data quality: Acceptable
Observations: In the wild these animals rarely live more than 5 years [0434]. One wild born specimen was about 21 years old when it died in captivity [0671].

[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)
[0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
[0441] William Burt et al. (1998), A Field Guide to Mammals
[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