AnAge entry for Spilocuscus maculatus
Classification (HAGRID: 02559)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Phalangeridae
Genus: Spilocuscus
- Species
- Spilocuscus maculatus
- Common name
- Common spotted cuscus, or Spotted cuscus
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 17 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Tiny
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
In the wild these animals have been estimated to live up to 11 years [0542]. One specimen lived for 13.2 years in captivity and could have been up to 17 years old [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 222 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 243 days
- Gestation
- 13 days
- Weaning
- 240 days
- Litter size
- 2 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at birth
- Weight at weaning
- 1,700 g
- Adult weight
- 3,500 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 99%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 308ºK or 34.7ºC or 94.5ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 6.2700 W
- Body mass
- 4250.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.001475 W/g
References
- [1308] Myhrvold et al. (2015), An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles
- [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)
- [0522] Fisher et al. (2001), The ecological basis of life history variation in marsupials
- [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
- [0542] Bernhard Grzimek (1990), Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 552690
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 175810
- Entrez
- Search all databases
- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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- Internet
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