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Myotis brandtii (Brandt's bat)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Brandt's bat (Myotis brandtii) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae.It is found throughout most of Europe and parts of Asia. It is known for its extreme longevity quotient, approximately twice that of humans. It is named for the German zoologist Johann Friedrich von Brandt.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  7 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Litter Size [3]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  41 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Wing Span [3]  9 inches (.22 m)

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Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ischnopsyllus comans[4]
Ischnopsyllus simplex[4]
Nycteridopsylla pentactena[4]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Bat Conservation Trust
♦ 4International Flea Database
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0