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Philantomba maxwellii (Maxwell's duiker)

Synonyms: Antilope maxwellii; Cephalophus liberiensis; Cephalophus maxwellii; Guevei maxwelli

Wikipedia Abstract

Maxwell's duiker (Philantomba maxwellii) is a small antelope found in western Africa.
View Wikipedia Record: Philantomba maxwellii

Infraspecies

Philantomba maxwellii danei
Philantomba maxwellii maxwellii

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  15.432 lbs (7.00 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  1.834 lbs (832 g)
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore, Herbivore
Diet - Endothermic [2]  10 %
Diet - Fruit [2]  30 %
Diet - Plants [2]  60 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  2 years
Male Maturity [3]  1 year 10 months
Gestation [1]  4 months
Litter Size [1]  1
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  18 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  30 inches (75 cm)
Weaning [1]  61 days

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Antiaris toxicaria[4]
Baphia nitida (camwood)[5]
Griffonia simplicifolia[5]
Musanga cecropioides (Musanga cecropioides)[5]
Pycnanthus angolensis angolensis[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Afropavo congensis (Congo Peafowl)1
Bycanistes cylindricus (Brown-cheeked Hornbill)2
Bycanistes fistulator (Piping Hornbill)2
Ceratogymna atrata (Black-casqued Wattled Hornbill)2
Mandrillus leucophaeus (drill)1

Predators

Stephanoaetus coronatus (Crowned Eagle)[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Avitellina centripunctata[5]
Linognathus breviceps[4]
Trichuris ovis[5]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5Cephalophus maxwellii, Katherine Ralls, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 31, pp. 1-4 (1973)
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0