AnAge entry for Microtus subterraneus
Classification (HAGRID: 02897)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Microtus
- Species
- Microtus subterraneus
- Common name
- European pine vole
- Synonyms
- Pitymys dacius, Pitymys ehiki, Pitymys incertoides, Pitymys klozeli, Pitymys kupelwieseri, Pitymys mustersi, Pitymys nyirensis, Hypudaeus rufescente-fuscus, Hypudaeus rufofuscus, Pitymys transsylvanicus, Pitymys ukrainicus, Pitymys zimmermanni, Pitymys subterraneus atratus, Pitymys multiplex brauneri, Pitymys subterraneus capucinus, Pitymys majori fingeri, Arvicola agrestis fusca, Pitymys multiplex hercegovinensis, Pitymys dacius hungaricus, Pitymys nyirensis martinoi, Pitymys subterraneus matrensis, Pitymys suberraneus wettsteini
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- Not yet established
- Observations
Little is known about the longevity of these animals. Anecdotal reports suggest they live up to 4 years.
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 96 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 22 days
- Weaning
- 24 days
- Litter size
- 2.7 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 4
- Inter-litter interval
- 24 days
- Weight at birth
- 1.6 g
- Weight at weaning
- 9.4 g
- Adult weight
- 20 g
- Postnatal growth rate
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 311ºK or 37.8ºC or 100.0ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.2760 W
- Body mass
- 17.8 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.015506 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
- [1032] McNab (2008), An analysis of the factors that influence the level and scaling of mammalian BMR (PubMed)
- [0036] Savage et al. (2004), The predominance of quarter-power scaling in biology
- [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 632893
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 137712
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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