AnAge entry for Marmota flaviventris

Classification (HAGRID: 02774)

Taxonomy: Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Chordata
        Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
            Order: Rodentia
                Family: Sciuridae
                    Genus: Marmota
Species: Marmota flaviventris
Common name: Yellow-bellied marmot

Maximum longevity: 21.2 years (captivity)
Source: ref. 671
Sample size: Tiny
Data quality: Acceptable
Observations: In the wild, these animals live up to 15 years (Ken Armitage, pers. comm.). One captive specimen was still alive after 21.2 years at Utah's Hogle Zoo [0671].

: No information is available on life history. Please contact us if you wish to suggest or contribute data.

[1150] Jones et al. (2014), Diversity of ageing across the tree of life (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
[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
[0676] Purvis and Harvey (1995), Mammal life-history evolution: a comparative test of Charnov's model
[0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
[0680] Wootton (1987), The effects of body mass, phylogeny, habitat, and trophic level on mammalian age at first reproduction