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Tadarida brasiliensis (Brazilian free-tailed bat)

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Infraspecies

Tadarida brasiliensis antillularum
Tadarida brasiliensis bahamensis
Tadarida brasiliensis brasiliensis (Mexican free-tailed bat)
Tadarida brasiliensis constanzae
Tadarida brasiliensis cynocephala
Tadarida brasiliensis intermedia
Tadarida brasiliensis mexicana
Tadarida brasiliensis murina
Tadarida brasiliensis muscula

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
7
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
31
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 15.47
EDGE Score: 2.8
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  13 grams
Birth Weight [1]  3 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Aerial [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  9 months 3 days
Male Maturity [1]  1 year 6 months
Gestation [1]  78 days
Litter Size [1]  1
Litters / Year [3]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  12 years
Migration [4]  Intercontinental
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [5]  3.543 inches (9 cm)
Wing Span [6]  12 inches (.3 m)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Emblem of

Oklahoma
Texas

Predators

Consumers

Range Map

External References

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Citations

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♦ 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
♦ 3Tadarida brasiliensis, Kenneth T. Wilkins, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 331, pp. 1-10 (1989)
♦ 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
♦ 5Nathan 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
♦ 6Allometry of Bat Wings and Legs and Comparison with Bird Wings, Ulla M. Norberg, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 1981 292, 359-398
♦ 7Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 8International 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
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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