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Lavia frons (yellow-winged bat)

Synonyms: Megaderma frons

Wikipedia Abstract

The yellow-winged bat (Lavia frons) is one of five species of false vampire bat (family Megadermatidae) from Africa.
View Wikipedia Record: Lavia frons

Infraspecies

Lavia frons affinis
Lavia frons frons
Lavia frons rex

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
12
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
38
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 24.83
EDGE Score: 3.25
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  32 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Gestation [1]  90 days
Litter Size [3]  1
Litters / Year [3]  1
Nocturnal [4]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  2.756 inches (7 cm)
Weaning [1]  55 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania No
Eastern Afromontane Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe No
Guinean Forests of West Africa Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Togo No
Horn of Africa Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Oman, Somalia, Yemen No

Prey / Diet

Macrotermes falciger[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Bdeogale crassicauda (Bushy-tailed Mongoose)1

Predators

Dendroaspis angusticeps (Green Mamba)[1]
Falco tinnunculus (Eurasian Kestrel)[1]
Macheiramphus alcinus (Bat Hawk)[1]
Toxicodryas blandingii (Blandings Tree Snake)[1]

Providers

Shelter 
Vachellia elatior[1]
Vachellia tortilis (umbrella thorn)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Chiropteropsylla brockmani brockmani[5]
Echidnophaga aethiops[5]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Lavia frons, Maarten J. Vonhof and Matina C. Kalcounis, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 614, pp. 1-4 (1999)
♦ 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
♦ 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
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