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Balantiopteryx plicata (gray sac-winged bat)

Wikipedia Abstract

The gray sac-winged bat (Balantiopteryx plicata) is a species in the family Emballonuridae which comprises the 51 species of sac-winged bats. It is found in Mexico from Baja California Sur and Sonora to Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and northern Colombia, at elevations up to 1,500 metres (4,900 ft).
View Wikipedia Record: Balantiopteryx plicata

Infraspecies

Balantiopteryx plicata pallida
Balantiopteryx plicata plicata

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
8
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
33
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 17.71
EDGE Score: 2.93
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  6.5 grams
Birth Weight [1]  2 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Aerial [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [3]  7 months 16 days
Gestation [1]  4 months 15 days
Litter Size [1]  1
Litters / Year [1]  1
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  1.968 inches (5 cm)
Weaning [1]  63 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Celaque National Park II 66197 Honduras  
Palo Verde National Park II 46190 Costa Rica  

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

Predators

Spilogale pygmaea (Pygmy Spotted Skunk)[1]
Tyto alba (Barn Owl)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Paralecithodendrium naviculum <Unverified Name>[4]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Balantiopteryx plicata, Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales and J. Knox Jones, Jr., MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 301, pp. 1-4 (1988)
♦ 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
♦ 3Nathan 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
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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