AnAge entry for Rhinolophus ferrumequinum
Classification (HAGRID: 02378)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Chiroptera (Taxon entry)
Family: Rhinolophidae
Genus: Rhinolophus
- Species
- Rhinolophus ferrumequinum
- Common name
- Greater horseshoe bat
- Synonyms
- Rhinolophus ferrumequinum korai
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 30.5 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 1
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
Telomere length has been shown to shorten with age in these animals [1349].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 730 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 730 days
- Gestation
- 80 days
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at birth
- 5.8 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 22.875 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- Maximum longevity residual
- 387%
Metabolism
No information on metabolism is available.
References
- [1349] Foley et al. (2018), Growing old, yet staying young: The role of telomeres in bats' exceptional longevity (PubMed)
- [0477] Brunet-Rossinni and Austad (2004), Ageing studies on bats: a review (PubMed)
- [0971] Jones et al. (2003), Biological correlates of extinction risk in bats (PubMed)
- [0424] Wilkinson and South (2002), Life history, ecology and longevity in bats (PubMed)
- [0001] Carey and Judge (2000), Longevity Records: Life Spans of Mammals, Birds, Amphibians, Reptiles, and Fish
- [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 631430
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 59479
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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- Internet
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