AnAge entry for Macrotus waterhousii
Classification (HAGRID: 02346)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Chiroptera (Taxon entry)
Family: Phyllostomidae
Genus: Macrotus
- Species
- Macrotus waterhousii
- Common name
- Waterhouse's leaf-nosed bat
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 10.4 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 513
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 91 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 244 days
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 0.59 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 16 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 139%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [1308] Myhrvold et al. (2015), An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles
- [0978] Jones et al. (2009), PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals
- [0513] Cockrum (1973), Additional longevity records of American bats
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 552465
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 124750
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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