AnAge entry for Myotis grisescens
Classification (HAGRID: 02401)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Chiroptera (Taxon entry)
Family: Vespertilionidae
Genus: Myotis
- Species
- Myotis grisescens
- Common name
- Gray myotis
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 16.5 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 1
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 456 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 456 days
- Gestation
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at birth
- 2.9 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 9.25 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0964 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 240%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [0971] Jones et al. (2003), Biological correlates of extinction risk in bats (PubMed)
- [0424] Wilkinson and South (2002), Life history, ecology and longevity in bats (PubMed)
- [0001] Carey and Judge (2000), Longevity Records: Life Spans of Mammals, Birds, Amphibians, Reptiles, and Fish
- [0441] William Burt et al. (1998), A Field Guide to Mammals
- [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 179997
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 384635
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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