AnAge entry for Plecotus austriacus
Classification (HAGRID: 02427)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Chiroptera (Taxon entry)
Family: Vespertilionidae
Genus: Plecotus
- Species
- Plecotus austriacus
- Common name
- Gray big-eared bat
- Synonyms
- Plecotus austriacus austriacus, Vespertilio auritus austriacus
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 25.5 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 970
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 352 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 365 days
- Gestation
- 65 days
- Weaning
- Litter size
- (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 12 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 357%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [1308] Myhrvold et al. (2015), An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles
- [0970] Gaisler et al. (2003), Results of bat banding in the Czech and Slovak Republics, 1948-2000 (in Czech)
- [0424] Wilkinson and South (2002), Life history, ecology and longevity in bats (PubMed)
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
- [0565] Warwickshire Bat Group
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 632134
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 109483
- Entrez
- Search all databases
- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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- Internet
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