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Leptonycteris yerbabuenae (Mexican long-nosed bat; lesser long-nosed bat)

Synonyms: Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae; Leptonycteris nivalis yerbabuenae; Leptonycteris sanborni

Wikipedia Abstract

The lesser long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris yerbabuenae) is a medium-sized bat found in Central and North America. It is sometimes known as Sanborn's long-nosed bat or the Mexican long-nosed bat, though the latter name is better avoided since it is also used for the entire genus Leptonycteris and for one of the other species in it, the greater long-nosed bat (L. nivalis).
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
46
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 9.64
EDGE Score: 3.75
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  25 grams
Birth Weight [2]  7.3 grams
Diet [3]  Herbivore
Forages - Arboreal [4]  100 %
Gestation [1]  4 months 2 days
Litter Size [2]  1
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [2]  8 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [1]  3.543 inches (9 cm)

Ecoregions

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 macroacantha[2]
Agave palmeri (Palmer's century plant)[2]
Carnegiea gigantea (saguaro)[2]
Stenocereus thurberi (organpipe cactus)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Pollinator of 
Agave macroacantha[2]
Agave palmeri (Palmer's century plant)[2]
Ceiba aesculifolia aesculifolia[2]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

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
♦ 2Leptonycteris yerbabuenae, F. Russell Cole and Don E. Wilson, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 797, pp. 1-7 (2006)
♦ 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
♦ 4Hamish 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
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