AnAge entry for Spalacopus cyanus
Classification (HAGRID: 03108)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Octodontidae
Genus: Spalacopus
- Species
- Spalacopus cyanus
- Common name
- Coruro
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 10.8 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One female lived 10.8 years in captivity until it disappeared [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 80 days
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 2.4 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1.8
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 8.9 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 98 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 109%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 310ºK or 36.5ºC or 97.7ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.5610 W
- Body mass
- 126.2 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.004445 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
- [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)
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant mammals
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 584786
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 61880
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