🦇Common pipistrelle
Die Zwergfledermaus (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) gehört zu der Familie der Glattnasen (Vespertilionidae) und ist die meistverbreitete europäische Fledermausart. Sie gehört zu den kleinsten Vertretern der Säugetiere mit einer Flügelspannweite von bis zu 25 Zentimetern. Sie ist neben der Mückenfledermaus eine der kleinsten innerhalb ihrer Gattung.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.
- Body mass
- 0.01 kg
- Body length
- 0.05 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 17 years
Everything we know about the Common pipistrelle
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.01 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 0.01 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length0.05 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan17 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 17 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length5.37 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity248 daysCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation42 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 42 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size1COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1.2AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelCarnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleNocturnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Common pipistrelle yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderChiroptera
- ›familyVespertilionidae
- ›genusPipistrellus
- ›speciesPipistrellus pipistrellus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderBats · Chiroptera
- familyVespertilionidae
All 12 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderBats · Chiroptera
- familyVespertilionidae
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