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Rousettus amplexicaudatus (Geoffroy's rousette)

Synonyms: Pteropus amplexicaudatus

Wikipedia Abstract

Geoffroy's rousette, (Rousettus amplexicaudatus), is a species of megabat or Old World fruit bats. It is one of 10 species in the genus Rousettus.
View Wikipedia Record: Rousettus amplexicaudatus

Infraspecies

Rousettus amplexicaudatus amplexicaudatus
Rousettus amplexicaudatus brachyotis
Rousettus amplexicaudatus infumatus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
0
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
6
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.18
EDGE Score: 1.16
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  67.5 grams
Birth Weight [2]  12 grams
Diet [3]  Frugivore, Nectarivore
Diet - Fruit [3]  60 %
Diet - Nectar [3]  40 %
Forages - Arboreal [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [2]  8 months 19 days
Gestation [2]  3 months 11 days
Litter Size [2]  1
Litters / Year [2]  2
Maximum Longevity [2]  8 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [2]  4.331 inches (11 cm)
Wing Span [1]  19 inches (.49 m)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
East Melanesian Islands Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu No
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Philippines Philippines No
Sundaland Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand No
Wallacea East Timor, Indonesia No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

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Consumers

Parasitized by 
Thaumapsylla breviceps orientalis[5]
Thaumapsylla longiforceps[5]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Habitat structure, wing morphology, and the vertical stratification of Malaysian fruit bats (Megachiroptera: Pteropodidae), Robert Hodgkison, Sharon T. Balding, Akbar Zubaid and Thomas H. Kunz, Journal of Tropical Ecology (2004) 20:667–673
♦ 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
♦ 4"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
♦ 5International 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
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