AnAge entry for Saccopteryx bilineata
Classification (HAGRID: 02323)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Chiroptera (Taxon entry)
Family: Emballonuridae
Genus: Saccopteryx
- Species
- Saccopteryx bilineata
- Common name
- Greater sac-winged bat
- Synonyms
- Urocryptus bilineatus
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 6 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 424
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One study on greater sac-winged bats reported that individuals with higher white blood cell counts and immunoglobulin concentrations had decreased changes of survival, indicating that there may be a trade-off between immunological defences and other costly life-history traits in these animals [1199].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- Weaning
- 60 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 3.49 g
- Weight at weaning
- 6.8 g
- Adult weight
- 7.9 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 89%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 309ºK or 35.5ºC or 95.9ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.0810 W
- Body mass
- 7.8 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.010385 W/g
References
- [1199] Schneeberger et al. (2014), Immune profile predicts survival and reflects senescence in a small, long-lived mammal, the greater sac-winged bat (Saccopteryx bilineata) (PubMed)
- [0978] Jones et al. (2009), PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals
- [0036] Savage et al. (2004), The predominance of quarter-power scaling in biology
- [0420] White and Seymour (2003), Mammalian basal metabolic rate is proportional to body mass2/3 (PubMed)
- [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 631723
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 59482
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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