AnAge entry for Gerbillus pyramidum
Classification (HAGRID: 02672)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Rodentia
Family: Muridae
Genus: Gerbillus
- Species
- Gerbillus pyramidum
- Common name
- Greater Egyptian gerbil
- Synonyms
- Gerbillus gedeedus, Dipus pyramidum, Gerbillus pyramidum elbaensis
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 8.2 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 36.1ºC or 97.0ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.4540 W
- Body mass
- 108.5 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.004184 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
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
- [0571] National Gerbil Society
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 632963
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 298882
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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