AnAge entry for Phyllostomus hastatus
Classification (HAGRID: 01996)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Chiroptera (Taxon entry)
Family: Phyllostomidae
Genus: Phyllostomus
- Species
- Phyllostomus hastatus
- Common name
- Greater spear-nosed bat
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 18 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 34.7ºC or 94.5ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.5590 W
- Body mass
- 84.2 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.006639 W/g
References
- [0978] Jones et al. (2009), PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals
- [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)
- [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 631781
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9423
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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- Images
- Google Image search
- Internet
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