AnAge entry for Glossophaga soricina
Classification (HAGRID: 01991)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Chiroptera (Taxon entry)
Family: Phyllostomidae
Genus: Glossophaga
- Species
- Glossophaga soricina
- Common name
- Pallas's long-tongued bat
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 11 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
Life history traits (averages)
- No information is available on life history. Please contact us if you wish to suggest or contribute data.
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 309ºK or 35.5ºC or 95.9ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.1640 W
- Body mass
- 9.6 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.017083 W/g
References
- [0671] Richard Weigl (2005), Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World
- [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)
- [0420] White and Seymour (2003), Mammalian basal metabolic rate is proportional to body mass2/3 (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
- [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 631815
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 27638
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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