AnAge entry for Microgale dobsoni
Classification (HAGRID: 01545)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Afrosoricida
Family: Tenrecidae
Genus: Microgale
- Species
- Microgale dobsoni
- Common name
- Dobson's shrew tenrec
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 5.6 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 434
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
Record longevity in captivity is reportedly 5.6 years [0434].
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
- 304ºK or 30.9ºC or 87.6ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.3150 W
- Body mass
- 44.6 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.007063 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
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0678] Symonds (1999), Life histories of the Insectivora: the role of phylogeny, metabolism, and sex differences
- [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 633496
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 1206715
- Entrez
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