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Leptonycteris nivalis (Mexican long-nosed bat; big long-nosed bat)

Synonyms: Ischnoglossa nivalis
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The greater long-nosed bat or Mexican long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris nivalis) is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is found in Mexico, the United States, and in Guatemala. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. This species of bat is the pollinator of the blue agave plant, the source of tequila.
View Wikipedia Record: Leptonycteris nivalis

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Leptonycteris nivalis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
5
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
59
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 10.93
EDGE Score: 4.56
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  24 grams
Birth Weight [2]  8 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Nectarivore
Diet - Fruit [3]  40 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  20 %
Diet - Nectar [3]  40 %
Forages - Arboreal [3]  100 %
Gestation [2]  4 months 2 days
Litter Size [1]  1
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [2]  10 years
Nocturnal [4]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [2]  3.543 inches (9 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Big Bend Biosphere Reserve National Park II 815561 Texas, United States
Coronado National Monument National Memorial III 4360 Arizona, United States
Organ Pipe Cactus Biosphere Reserve 327376 Arizona, United States  
Reserva de la Biosfera Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve VI 955579 Queretaro, Mexico  
Reserva de Mapimi Biosphere Reserve VI 849819 Chihuahua, Mexico  

Biodiversity Hotspots

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

Prey / Diet

Agave glomeruliflora (Chisos Mountain century plant)[1]
Datura stramonium (moonflower)[1]
Neobuxbaumia tetetzo[5]
Opuntia robusta var. larreyi (Wheel Cactus)[6]
Opuntia streptacantha var. pachona[6]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Basilia corynorhini[1]
Myodopsylla gentilis[1]
Trichobius sphaeronotus[1]

Range Map

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External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Leptonycteris nivalis, Adele Pfrimmer Hensley and Kenneth T. Wilkins, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 307, pp. 1-4 (1988)
♦ 2Nathan 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
♦ 3Hamish 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
♦ 4Myers, 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
♦ 5THE ROLE OF SEED DISPERSERS IN THE POPULATION DYNAMICS OF THE COLUMNAR CACTUS NEOBUXBAUMIA TETETZO, HÉCTOR GODÍNEZ-ALVAREZ, ALFONSO VALIENTE-BANUET, AND ALBERTO ROJAS-MARTÍNEZ, Ecology, 83(9), 2002, pp. 2617-2629
♦ 6Seed predation and dispersal in a dominant desert plant: Opuntia, ants, birds, and mammals, Mario González-Espinosa and Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio, Frugivores and Seed Dispersal (eds A. Estrada & T. H. Fleming.), pp. 273–284. Dr W. Junk, Publishers, Dordrecht.
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