AnAge entry for Phoebastria immutabilis
Classification (HAGRID: 01128)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (Taxon entry)
Order: Procellariiformes
Family: Diomedeidae
Genus: Phoebastria
- Species
- Phoebastria immutabilis
- Common name
- Laysan albatross
- Synonyms
- Diomedea immutabilis
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 65 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 718
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
One female specimen banded in 1956 was spotted with a chick on Midway Atoll in 2013. In 1956 the animal, named Wisdom, was incubating an egg making her at least 5 years old and therefore at least 65 years of age in 2016 [0718].
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
- 7.4620 W
- Body mass
- 2522.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.002959 W/g
References
- [0820] John Dunning (2008), CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses
- [0435] McKechnie and Wolf (2004), The allometry of avian basal metabolic rate: good predictions need good data (PubMed)
- [0718] U.S. Geological Survey
- [0445] The Birds of North America Online
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 554378
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 54020
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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- Internet
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