AnAge entry for Miniopterus schreibersi

Classification (HAGRID: 02726)
Taxonomy	Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry) Order: Chiroptera (Taxon entry) Family: Vespertilionidae Genus: Miniopterus
Species	Miniopterus schreibersi
Common name	Schreibers's long-fingered bat
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
Maximum longevity	22 years (wild)
Source	ref. 424
Sample size	medium
Data quality	acceptable
Observations	No observations are presently available
Life history traits (averages)
Female sexual maturity	577 days
Male sexual maturity	730 days
Gestation	100 days
Weaning	66 days
Litter size	1 (viviparous)
Litters per year
Inter-litter interval	365 days
Weight at birth	2.8 g
Weight at weaning	12.5 g
Adult weight	13 g
Postnatal growth rate	0.0462 days^-1 (from Gompertz function)
Maximum longevity residual	304 %
Metabolism
Typical body temperature	311ºK or 37.7ºC or 99.9ºF
Basal metabolic rate	0.1450 W
Body mass	10.9 g
Metabolic rate per body mass	0.013303 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 [0424] Wilkinson and South (2002), Life history, ecology and longevity in bats, PubMed [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
External resources
Integrated Taxonomic Information System	ITIS 632185
Animal Diversity Web	ADW account (if available)
Encyclopedia of Life	Search EOL
Genome Project	Search NCBI
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Ageing literature	Search Google Scholar Search PubMed Search Scirus
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Internet	Search Google

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