AnAge entry for Eptesicus serotinus
Classification (HAGRID: 02389)
- Taxonomy
-
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Chiroptera (Taxon entry)
Family: Vespertilionidae
Genus: Eptesicus
- Species
- Eptesicus serotinus
- Common name
- Serotine
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 21 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 970
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 68 days
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 1.5 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 5.3 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 18.2 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0487 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 276%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [0971] Jones et al. (2003), Biological correlates of extinction risk in bats (PubMed)
- [0970] Gaisler et al. (2003), Results of bat banding in the Czech and Slovak Republics, 1948-2000 (in Czech)
- [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 631969
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 59452
- Entrez
- Search all databases
- Ageing Literature
- Search Google Scholar or Search PubMed
- Images
- Google Image search
- Internet
- Search Google