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Rhinopoma hardwickii (lesser mouse-tailed bat)

Synonyms: Rhinopoma hardwickei; Rhinopoma hardwickii hardwickii; Rhinopoma hardwickii sondaicum

Wikipedia Abstract

The lesser mouse-tailed bat (Rhinopoma hardwickii) is a species of bat in the family Rhinopomatidae. Also referred to as Hardwicke's lesser mouse-tailed bat and long-tailed bat, it is named after Major General Thomas Hardwicke (1755–1835), an English soldier and naturalist who served many years in India. It is found in North Africa, some parts of central and eastern Africa, West Asia and east to the Indian subcontinent.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  14.2 grams
Birth Weight [2]  3 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  100 %
Forages - Aerial [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [2]  9 months 4 days
Male Maturity [2]  1 year 4 months
Gestation [2]  3 months 8 days
Litter Size [2]  1
Litters / Year [2]  1
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [2]  2.362 inches (6 cm)

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Kanha Tiger Reserve National Park II 223971 Madhya Pradesh, India
Mujib Nature Reserve Wildlife Reserve IV   Jordan
Socotra Archipelago Biosphere Reserve 6626477 Yemen  
Sunderban National Park 261613 India  

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Chiropteropsylla aegyptia[4]
Ischnopsyllus octactenus[4]
Rhinolophopsylla unipectinata unipectinata[4]

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
♦ 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
♦ 4International Flea Database
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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