AnAge entry for Phyllostomus hastatus
- 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
- Maximum longevity
- 18 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 424
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
- Female sexual maturity
- 730 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 730 days
- Gestation
- 120 days
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- 15.9 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 81 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 188%
- 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
- [1409] Mendes et al. (2013), Family Planning: Does Variation in Reproductive Strategies Affect Vulnerability to Extinction in the Greater Spear-Nosed Bat Phyllostomus Hastatus?
- [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
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- ITIS 631781
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- Taxonomy ID 9423
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