AnAge entry for Rhinolophus hipposideros
Classification (HAGRID: 02379)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Chiroptera (Taxon entry)
Family: Rhinolophidae
Genus: Rhinolophus
- Species
- Rhinolophus hipposideros
- Common name
- Lesser horseshoe bat
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 29.4 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 970
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 500 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 471 days
- Gestation
- 67 days
- Weaning
- 35 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at birth
- 2.1 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 4.6 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 477%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [0978] Jones et al. (2009), PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals
- [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)
- [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 631434
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 77218
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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