AnAge entry for Procyon lotor
Classification (HAGRID: 02246)
- Taxonomy
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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
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- 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].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Gestation
- 63 days
- Weaning
- 91 days
- Litter size
- 4 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at birth
- 80 g
- Weight at weaning
- 1,175 g
- Adult weight
- 6,000 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0153 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 113%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 311ºK or 38.0ºC or 100.4ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 10.4280 W
- Body mass
- 4842.2 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.002154 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)
- [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
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 180575
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9654
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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