Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Chiroptera > Emballonuridae > Taphozous > Taphozous melanopogon

Taphozous melanopogon (black-bearded tomb bat)

Synonyms: Taphozous melanopogon philippinensis; Taphozous melanopogon phillipinensis; Taphozous philippinensis; Taphozous solifer

Wikipedia Abstract

The black-bearded tomb bat (Taphozous melanopogon) is a species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae.It is found in South and South East Asia across the territories of Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam.
View Wikipedia Record: Taphozous melanopogon

Infraspecies

Taphozous melanopogon bicolor
Taphozous melanopogon cavaticus
Taphozous melanopogon fretensis
Taphozous melanopogon melanopogon

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
8
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
32
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 16.41
EDGE Score: 2.86
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  27.6 grams
Birth Weight [2]  6 grams
Female Weight [2]  27 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  100 %
Forages - Aerial [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [2]  5 months 2 days
Male Maturity [2]  4 months 17 days
Gestation [2]  4 months 2 days
Litter Size [2]  1
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [2]  20 years
Nocturnal [4]  Yes

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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
♦ 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
♦ 5International Flea Database
♦ 6Gibson, 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