AnAge entry for Macroderma gigas
Classification (HAGRID: 01976)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Chiroptera (Taxon entry)
Family: Megadermatidae
Genus: Macroderma
- Species
- Macroderma gigas
- Common name
- Australian false vampire bat
- Synonyms
- Megaderma gigas
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 22.6 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One captive specimen lived for 22.6 years [0671].
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
- 310ºK or 37.0ºC or 98.6ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.6390 W
- Body mass
- 126.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.005071 W/g
References
- [1308] Myhrvold et al. (2015), An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles
- [0978] Jones et al. (2009), PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals
- [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)
- [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 631754
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- ADW account
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9411
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