AnAge entry for Haplonycteris fischeri
Classification (HAGRID: 02357)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Chiroptera (Taxon entry)
Family: Pteropodidae
Genus: Haplonycteris
- Species
- Haplonycteris fischeri
- Common name
- Philippine pygmy fruit bat
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 10 years
- Source
- ref. 434
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
Gestation does not include a period of very slow development, which depends on the time of the year and can take up to 8 months, after which the rate of development increases and development is completed in about 3 months. Individuals have been known to live more than 10 years [0434].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 120 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 315 days
- Gestation
- 90 days
- Weaning
- 70 days
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 2.74 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 18 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 131%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [0978] Jones et al. (2009), PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals
- [0971] Jones et al. (2003), Biological correlates of extinction risk 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
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 631579
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 301158
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