AnAge entry for Desmodus rotundus
Classification (HAGRID: 02341)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Chiroptera (Taxon entry)
Family: Phyllostomidae
Genus: Desmodus
- Species
- Desmodus rotundus
- Common name
- Vampire bat
- Synonyms
- Phyllostoma rotundum
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 29.2 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
They stop growing at about 5 months. One captive specimen lived for 29.2 years [0671].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 285 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 285 days
- Gestation
- 189 days
- Weaning
- 274 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 2
- Inter-litter interval
- 289 days
- Weight at birth
- 8 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 33.2 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.0294 days-1 (from Gompertz function)
- Maximum longevity residual
- 350%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 308ºK or 35.0ºC or 95.0ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.1940 W
- Body mass
- 29.4 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.006599 W/g
References
- [1093] Conde-Perezprina et al. (2012), DNA MMR systems, microsatellite instability and antioxidant activity variations in two species of wild bats: Myotis velifer and Desmodus rotundus, as possible factors associated with longevity (PubMed)
- [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)
- [0730] Smith et al. (2003), Body mass of late Quaternary mammals
- [0424] Wilkinson and South (2002), Life history, ecology and longevity in bats (PubMed)
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0455] Virginia Hayssen et al. (1993), Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-Specific Data
- [0731] Zullinger et al. (1984), Fitting sigmoid equations to mammalian growth curves
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 631886
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9430
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