AnAge entry for Antechinus swainsonii
Classification (HAGRID: 02090)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Dasyuromorphia
Family: Dasyuridae
Genus: Antechinus
- Species
- Antechinus swainsonii
- Common name
- Dusky antechinus
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 3.3 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
Life history traits (averages)
- No information is available on life history. Please contact us if you wish to suggest or contribute data.
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 309ºK or 36.0ºC or 96.8ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.3510 W
- Body mass
- 66.9 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.005247 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)
- [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
- [0522] Fisher et al. (2001), The ecological basis of life history variation in marsupials
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 552601
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9284
- Entrez
- Search all databases
- Ageing Literature
- Search Google Scholar or Search PubMed
- Images
- Google Image search
- Internet
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