AnAge entry for Pteropus vampyrus
Classification (HAGRID: 02372)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Chiroptera (Taxon entry)
Family: Pteropodidae
Genus: Pteropus
- Species
- Pteropus vampyrus
- Common name
- Large flying fox
- Synonyms
- Pteropus giganteus, Pteropus intermedius, Vespertilio gigantea
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 20.9 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 671
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
This is the largest species of the genus in wingspan [0434].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- Weight at birth
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 872 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 151%
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 310ºK or 36.9ºC or 98.4ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 4.4860 W
- Body mass
- 1024.3 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.004380 W/g
References
- [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)
- [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 631662
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 132908
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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