AnAge entry for Myotis lucifugus
Classification (HAGRID: 02404)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Chiroptera (Taxon entry)
Family: Vespertilionidae
Genus: Myotis
- Species
- Myotis lucifugus
- Common name
- Little brown bat
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 34 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 424
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
The little brown bat is unique amongst mammals, and maybe even amongst vertebrates, due to its large range of body temperatures. Animals can be cooled to 279.5 K without apparent harm and have also been found at 327 K [0428]. They attain adult weight in about one month.
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 210 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 210 days
- Gestation
- 55 days
- Weaning
- 25 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at birth
- 1.96 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 10 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.116 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 490%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 305ºK or 32.0ºC or 89.6ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.0510 W
- Body mass
- 5.8 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.008793 W/g
References
- [1136] Gomes et al. (2011), Comparative biology of mammalian telomeres: hypotheses on ancestral states and the roles of telomeres in longevity determination (PubMed)
- [0777] Harper et al. (2007), Skin-derived fibroblasts from long-lived species are resistant to some, but not all, lethal stresses and to the mitochondrial inhibitor rotenone (PubMed)
- [0477] Brunet-Rossinni and Austad (2004), Ageing studies on bats: a review (PubMed)
- [0178] Brunet Rossinni (2004), Testing the free radical theory of aging in bats (PubMed)
- [0074] Brunet-Rossinni (2004), Reduced free-radical production and extreme longevity in the little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) versus two non-flying mammals (PubMed)
- [0036] Savage et al. (2004), The predominance of quarter-power scaling in biology
- [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)
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [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
- [0295] Anthony and Gustafson (1984), A quantitative study of pituitary colloid in the bat Myotis lucifugus lucifugus in relation to age, sex, and season (PubMed)
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
- [1051] Studier and O'Farrell (1972), Biology of Myotis thysanodes and M. lucifugus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)-I. Thermoregulation
- [0428] Roger Barbour and Wayne Davis (1969), Bats of America
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 179988
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 59463
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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