World Species : Tonatia bidens (greater round-eared bat)

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Tonatia bidens (greater round-eared bat)

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Synonyms: Vampyrus bidens

Wikipedia Abstract

The greater round-eared bat (Tonatia bidens) is a bat species from South America. It is found in northeastern and southern Brazil, northern Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia. The species feeds on fruit as well as hunting small birds. Once caught, birds are taken to a shelter and consumed.

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Not determined do to incomplete vulnerability data.

ED Score: 8.1

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	27.8 grams

Diet ^[2]	Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Fruit ^[2]	10 %
Diet - Invertibrates ^[2]	90 %

Litter Size ^[3]	1
Nocturnal ^[2]	Yes
Snout to Vent Length ^[3]	3.937 inches (10 cm)

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Alta Paraná Atlantic forests	Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Araucaria moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Atlantic Coast restingas	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Atlantic dry forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Bahia coastal forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Bahia interior forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Bolivian montane dry forests	Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Caatinga	Brazil	Neotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Caatinga Enclaves moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Campos Rupestres montane savanna	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Cerrado	Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Chiquitano dry forests	Bolivia, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Dry Chaco	Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Humid Chaco	Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Maranhao Babatu forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Northeastern Brazil restingas	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Pantanal	Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay	Neotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Paraná flooded savanna	Argentina	Neotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Pernambuco coastal forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Pernambuco interior forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Serra do Mar coastal forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Southern Andean Yungas	Bolivia, Argentina	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Southern Atlantic mangroves	Brazil	Neotropic	Mangroves

Protected Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic
Atlantic Forest	Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay	No
Cerrado	Brazil	No
Tropical Andes	Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela	No

Range Map

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External References

Citations

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
♦ 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