AnAge entry for Tatera indica
Classification (HAGRID: 03089)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Tatera
- Species
- Tatera indica
- Common name
- Indian gerbil
- Synonyms
- Tatera bailwardi, Tatera ceylonica, Gerbillus cuvieri, Tatera dunni, Gerbillus hardwickei, Gerbillus otarius, Tatera persica, Tatera pitmani, Tatera sherrini, Meriones taeniurus, Tatera bailwardi monticola, Tatera persica scansa
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 7 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One captive specimen lived for 7 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 77 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 91 days
- Gestation
- 26 days
- Weaning
- 24 days
- Litter size
- 5.4 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 4.2
- Inter-litter interval
- 48 days
- Weight at birth
- 3 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 146.7 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.024 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 66%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 309ºK or 36.0ºC or 96.8ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.4220 W
- Body mass
- 86.9 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.004856 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)
- [0610] Ernest (2003), Life history characteristics of placental non-volant 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
- [0542] Bernhard Grzimek (1990), Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals
- [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
- [0571] National Gerbil Society
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 633002
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- Taxonomy ID 186471
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