AnAge entry for Myotis velifer
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Chiroptera (Taxon entry)
Family: Vespertilionidae
Genus: Myotis
- Species
- Myotis velifer
- Common name
- Cave myotis
- Maximum longevity
- 11.3 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 424
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
- Female sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Gestation
- 65 days
- Weaning
- 43 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at birth
- 3.2 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 10.1 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.13 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 162%
- Typical body temperature
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.0400 W
- Body mass
- 11.9 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.003361 W/g
- [1093] Conde-Perezprina et al. (2012), DNA MMR systems, microsatellite instability and antioxidant activity variations in two species of wild bats: Myotis velifer and Desmodus rotundus, as possible factors associated with longevity (PubMed)
- [0906] Salmon et al. (2009), The long lifespan of two bat species is correlated with resistance to protein oxidation and enhanced protein homeostasis (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)
- [0730] Smith et al. (2003), Body mass of late Quaternary mammals
- [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
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
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- ITIS 180003
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- Taxonomy ID 9435
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