AnAge entry for Rhabdomys pumilio
Classification (HAGRID: 03085)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Rhabdomys
- Species
- Rhabdomys pumilio
- Common name
- Four-striped grass mouse
- Synonyms
- Mus donavani, Mus lineatus, Mus septemvittatus, Mus vittatus, Isomys pumilio bechuanae, Arvicanthis pumilio cinereus, Arvicanthis pumilio deserti, Rhabdomys pumilio fouriei, Arvicanthis pumilio griquae, Arvicanthis pumilio intermedius, Mus pumilio major, Arvicanthis pumilio meridionalis, Rhabdomys pumilio namaquensis, Rhabdomys pumilio namibensis, Rhabdomys pumilio orangiae, Rhabdomys pumilio prieskae
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 4.5 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One captive specimen lived for 4.5 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 42 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 64 days
- Gestation
- 25 days
- Weaning
- 14 days
- Litter size
- 6 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 4
- Inter-litter interval
- 29 days
- Weight at birth
- 2.67 g
- Weight at weaning
- 8.4 g
- Adult weight
- 51 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0361 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 50%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 310ºK or 37.0ºC or 98.6ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.1790 W
- Body mass
- 39.6 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.004520 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
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [0680] Wootton (1987), The effects of body mass, phylogeny, habitat, and trophic level on mammalian age at first reproduction
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 585562
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 121573
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