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Glauconycteris variegata (Variegated Butterfly Bat)

Infraspecies

Glauconycteris variegata phalaena
Glauconycteris variegata variegata (butterfly bat) (Attributes)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  11 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Aerial [2]  100 %
Gestation [1]  3 months 1 day
Litter Size [3]  1
Litters / Year [1]  1
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Speed [3]  9.842 MPH (4.4 m/s)
Wing Span [3]  13 inches (.32 m)

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 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
♦ 3Glauconycteris variegata (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae), DANIELA A. RAMBALDINI, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 42(870):251–258 (2010)
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