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Macroderma gigas (Australian false vampire bat)

Synonyms: Macroderma saturata; Megaderma gigas

Wikipedia Abstract

The ghost bat (Macroderma gigas), also known as the false vampire bat, is a bat native to Australia. The bat is named for the extremely thin membrane of its wings that makes it appear ghostly at night. Ghost bats have grey fur on their backs and pale grey or white fur on their undersides. They have long, narrow wings, but no tail, averaging 11 centimetres (4.3 in) in length. Females are generally smaller than males. Ghost bats have large ears for long distance hearing, and very sharp teeth so they can attack prey.
View Wikipedia Record: Macroderma gigas

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Macroderma gigas

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
12
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
60
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 24.83
EDGE Score: 4.64
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  150 grams
Birth Weight [1]  21.6 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Ectothermic [2]  10 %
Diet - Endothermic [2]  70 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  20 %
Female Maturity [3]  1 year
Male Maturity [3]  1 year
Gestation [3]  3 months 1 day
Litter Size [1]  1
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  23 years
Nocturnal [4]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  4.724 inches (12 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Kakadu National Park II 4744348 Northern Territory, Australia
Lake Nakuru National Park II 46472 Kenya  
Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park II 332429 Northern Territory, Australia

Prey / Diet

Mus musculus (house mouse)[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Serendipsylla marshalli[6]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 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
♦ 5Macroderma gigas, Wendy Starr Hudson and Don E. Wilson, Mammalian Species No. 260, pp. 1-4 (1986)
♦ 6International Flea Database
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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