AnAge entry for Tolypeutes matacus
Classification (HAGRID: 02445)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Cingulata
Family: Dasypodidae
Genus: Tolypeutes
- Species
- Tolypeutes matacus
- Common name
- Southern three-banded armadillo
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 36.8 years (captivity)
- Source
- John Gramieri, pers. comm.
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One female specimen acquired in 1971 by Lincoln Park Zoo, and estimated to be 3 years of age, passed away in 2005 at an estimated 36.8 years of age (John Gramieri, pers. comm.).
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 320 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 320 days
- Gestation
- 120 days
- Weaning
- 55 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 80 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 1,500 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0362 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 246%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 306ºK or 33.0ºC or 91.4ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 1.1720 W
- Body mass
- 1160.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.001010 W/g
References
- [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
- [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
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 624905
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 183749
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