AnAge entry for Myotis mystacinus
Classification (HAGRID: 02407)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Chiroptera (Taxon entry)
Family: Vespertilionidae
Genus: Myotis
- Species
- Myotis mystacinus
- Common name
- Whiskered bat
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 24 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 424
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
In the wild, these animals live on average 3-4 years [0564], but one animal has been reported to live 24 years [0424].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 456 days
- Gestation
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at birth
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 5.3 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 381%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [0424] Wilkinson and South (2002), Life history, ecology and longevity in bats (PubMed)
- [0564] Wilfred Schober and Eckard Grimmberger (1997), The Bats of Europe and North America
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 632036
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 109479
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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