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Myotis lucifugus (little brown myotis; little brown bat)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The little brown bat (sometimes called little brown myotis) (Myotis lucifugus) is a species of the genus Myotis (mouse-eared bats), one of the most common bats of North America. The little brown bat has been a model organism for studying bats.
View Wikipedia Record: Myotis lucifugus

Infraspecies

Myotis lucifugus alascensis
Myotis lucifugus carissimus
Myotis lucifugus lucifugus
Myotis lucifugus pernox
Myotis lucifugus relictus

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Myotis lucifugus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
16
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.2
EDGE Score: 1.82
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  10 grams
Birth Weight [1]  2 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Aerial [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  7 months
Male Maturity [1]  7 months
Gestation [1]  55 days
Hibernates [3]  Yes
Litter Size [1]  1
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  34 years
Migration [3]  Intracontinental
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [4]  1.968 inches (5 cm)
Speed [5]  12.001 MPH (5.365 m/s)
Weaning [1]  25 days
Wing Span [6]  9 inches (.233 m)
Habitat Substrate [3]  Arboreal

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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Ecosystems

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Prey / Diet

Chrysoperla carnea (Green Lacewing)[7]
Culiseta alaskaensis (Mosquito)[7]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Buteo jamaicensis (Red-tailed Hawk)[8]
Megascops asio (Eastern Screech-Owl)[8]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

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
♦ 3Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 4Nathan 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
♦ 5Alaska Department of Fish and Game
♦ 6Allometry of Bat Wings and Legs and Comparison with Bird Wings, Ulla M. Norberg, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 1981 292, 359-398
♦ 7Exploring the Denali Food Web, ParkWise, National Park Service
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 9Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 10International Flea Database
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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