AnAge entry for Prolemur simus
Classification (HAGRID: 02814)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Primates (Taxon entry)
Family: Lemuridae
Genus: Prolemur
- Species
- Prolemur simus
- Common name
- Greater bamboo lemur
- Synonyms
- Hapalemur simus, Hapalemur gallieni
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 17.6 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 142 days
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 1,738 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 115%
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
- [0467] Lindenfors (2002), Sexually antagonistic selection on primate size
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0542] Bernhard Grzimek (1990), Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals
- [0436] Cutler (1979), Evolution of human longevity: a critical overview (PubMed)
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 944072
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Entrez
- Search all databases
- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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- Internet
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