AnAge entry for Leptotila verreauxi
Classification (HAGRID: 00512)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (Taxon entry)
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Leptotila
- Species
- Leptotila verreauxi
- Common name
- White-tipped dove
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 8.6 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 579
- Sample size
- Small
- 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
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.8884 W
- Body mass
- 131.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.006782 W/g
References
- [0820] John Dunning (2008), CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses
- [0510] Reynolds and Lee (1996), Phylogenetic analysis of avian energetics: passerines and non-passerines do not differ
- [0579] Clapp et al. (1983), Longevity records of North American birds: Columbidae through Paridae
- [0444] John Terres (1980), The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds
- [0445] The Birds of North America Online
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 177166
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 135631
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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- Internet
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