AnAge entry for Macrotus californicus
Classification (HAGRID: 02345)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Chiroptera (Taxon entry)
Family: Phyllostomidae
Genus: Macrotus
- Species
- Macrotus californicus
- Common name
- California leaf-nosed bat
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 17 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Small
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
While they may reach sexual maturity earlier, males do not mate until they are at least one year-old. These animals feature diapause [0455]. One captive specimen was about 17 years old when it died in captivity [0671]. These animals have been reported to live up to 10.4 years in the wild [0424], though this could be due to confusion with /Macrotus waterhousii/.
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 120 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Gestation
- 270 days
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 2.52 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 11.6 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 239%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 308ºK or 35.0ºC or 95.0ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 0.0820 W
- Body mass
- 11.7 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.007009 W/g
References
- [1308] Myhrvold et al. (2015), An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles
- [0978] Jones et al. (2009), PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals
- [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
- [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)
- [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 180071
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 9419
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- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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