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Leptonycteris curasoae (southern long-nosed bat)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The southern long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris curasoae) is a South American species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae.
View Wikipedia Record: Leptonycteris curasoae

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Leptonycteris curasoae

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
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  23.4 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Nectarivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  40 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  20 %
Diet - Nectar [2]  40 %
Forages - Arboreal [2]  100 %
Gestation [3]  4 months 2 days
Litter Size [3]  1
Litters / Year [3]  1
Maximum Longevity [3]  10 years 1 month
Migration [4]  Intraoceanic
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [5]  3.543 inches (9 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Pollinator of 
Carnegiea gigantea (saguaro)[8]
Neobuxbaumia tetetzo[7]
Pachycereus pringlei (Mexican Giant Cardon)[8]
Stenocereus thurberi (organpipe cactus)[8]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Felisa A. Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons, S. K. Morgan Ernest, Kate E. Jones, Dawn M. Kaufman, Tamar Dayan, Pablo A. Marquet, James H. Brown, and John P. Haskell. 2003. Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84:3403
♦ 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
♦ 3de 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
♦ 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
♦ 6Population dynamics, reproduction, and diet of the lesser long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris curasoae) in Jalisco, Mexico: implications for conservation, Kathryn E. Stoner, Karla A. O.-Salazar, Roxana C. R.-Fernández and Mauricio Quesada, Biodiversity and Conservation, Volume 12, Number 2, 357-373 (2003)
♦ 7THE 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
♦ 8COMPARATIVE POLLINATION BIOLOGY OF VENEZUELAN COLUMNAR CACTI AND THE ROLE OF NECTAR-FEEDING BATS IN THEIR SEXUAL REPRODUCTION, Jafet M. Nassar, Nelson Ramirez and Omar Linares, American Journal of Botany 84(8): 918–927. 1997.
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