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Saccopteryx leptura (lesser sac-winged bat)

Synonyms: Vespertilio lepturus

Wikipedia Abstract

The lesser sac-winged bat (Saccopteryx leptura) is a bat species of the family Emballonuridae from South and Middle America.
View Wikipedia Record: Saccopteryx leptura

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
8
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
33
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 17.57
EDGE Score: 2.92
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  5.2 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Aerial [2]  100 %
Litter Size [1]  1
Snout to Vent Length [3]  1.968 inches (5 cm)
Weaning [1]  75 days

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External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Saccopteryx leptura, Franklin D. Yancey, II, Jim R. Goetze, and Clyde Jones, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 582, pp. 1-3 (1998)
♦ 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
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