AnAge entry for Phyllostomus discolor
Classification (HAGRID: 01995)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Chiroptera (Taxon entry)
Family: Phyllostomidae
Genus: Phyllostomus
- Species
- Phyllostomus discolor
- Common name
- Pale spear-nosed bat
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 9 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 424
- Sample size
- Medium
- 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
- 308ºK or 34.6ºC or 94.3ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.2670 W
- Body mass
- 33.5 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.007970 W/g
References
- [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 631779
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 89673
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
- Search Google Scholar or Search PubMed
- Images
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- Internet
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