AnAge entry for Tylomys nudicaudus
Classification (HAGRID: 02934)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Cricetidae
Genus: Tylomys
- Species
- Tylomys nudicaudus
- Common name
- Peters's climbing rat
- Synonyms
- Tylomys gymnurus, Tylomys nudicaudus microdon, Tylomys nudicaudus villai
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 5.4 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 82 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 109 days
- Gestation
- 40 days
- Weaning
- 26 days
- Litter size
- 2.4 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 6
- Inter-litter interval
- 39 days
- Weight at birth
- 16.77 g
- Weight at weaning
- 40 g
- Adult weight
- 280 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0313 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 46%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [0671] Richard Weigl (2005), Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World
- [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
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 633394
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 218839
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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- Internet
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