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Dasypterus ega (southern yellow bat)

Synonyms: Lasiurus ega; Nycticejus ega
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The southern yellow bat (Lasiurus ega) is a species of vesper bat that belongs to suborder microchiroptera (microbat) in the family Vespertilionidae. It is native to South, North and Central America, from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas in the United States to Argentina. It can be distinguished from other bat species by the baconian shape of its vestibular organ.
View Wikipedia Record: Dasypterus ega

Infraspecies

Dasypterus ega argentinus
Dasypterus ega caudatus
Dasypterus ega ega
Dasypterus ega fuscatus
Dasypterus ega panamensis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
20
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.83
EDGE Score: 2.06
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  12.7 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Aerial [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [3]  1 year
Gestation [3]  3 months 3 days
Litter Size [3]  2
Litters / Year [3]  1
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  3.15 inches (8 cm)
Wing Span [1]  14 inches (.345 m)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Providers

Shelter 
Washingtonia filifera (Desert Fan Palm)[1]
Washingtonia robusta (Mexican Fan Palm)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Litomosoides chandleri[4]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Lasiurus ega, Allen Kurta and Glenn C. Lehr, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 515, pp. 1-7 (1995)
♦ 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
♦ 3Nathan 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
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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