AnAge entry for Sminthopsis crassicaudata
Classification (HAGRID: 02477)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Dasyuromorphia
Family: Dasyuridae
Genus: Sminthopsis
- Species
- Sminthopsis crassicaudata
- Common name
- Fat-tailed dunnart
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 5 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
In the wild, these animals do not live more than 1.5 years [0434]. One captive specimen was at least 5 years old when it died [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 115 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 159 days
- Gestation
- 14 days
- Weaning
- 69 days
- Litter size
- 7 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2
- Inter-litter interval
- 94 days
- Weight at birth
- 0.01 g
- Weight at weaning
- 6.5 g
- Adult weight
- 15 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 67%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 308ºK or 35.2ºC or 95.4ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.1210 W
- Body mass
- 16.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.007562 W/g
References
- [0978] Jones et al. (2009), PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals
- [0817] Bielby et al. (2007), The fast-slow continuum in mammalian life history: an empirical reevaluation (PubMed)
- [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)
- [0730] Smith et al. (2003), Body mass of late Quaternary 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 552637
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9301
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