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Trachops cirrhosus (fringe-lipped bat)

Wikipedia Abstract

The fringe-lipped bat (Trachops cirrhosus) is a leaf-nosed bat from southern Mexico to Bolivia and southern Brazil. It has three subspecies and no known fossils. The species is monotypic within its genus.
View Wikipedia Record: Trachops cirrhosus

Infraspecies

Trachops cirrhosus cirrhosus
Trachops cirrhosus coffini
Trachops cirrhosus ehrhardti

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
9
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
35
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 19.35
EDGE Score: 3.01
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  39 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Ectothermic [2]  40 %
Diet - Fruit [2]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  50 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Litter Size [1]  1
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  3.543 inches (9 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Carollia perspicillata (Seba's short-tailed bat)[4]
Engystomops pustulosus (Túngara Frog)[1]
Pipra rubrocapilla (Red-headed Manakin)[4]

Predators

Philander opossum (Gray Four-eyed Opossum)[1]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Trachops cirrhosus, Michael J. Cramer, Michael R. Willig, and Clyde Jones, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 656, pp. 1–6 (2001)
♦ 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
♦ 4FOOD HABITS OF THE FROG - EATING BAT , TRACHOPS CIRRHOSUS , IN ATLANTIC FOREST OF NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL, Flavio H. G. Rodrigues, Marcelo L. Reis & Vivian S. Braz, Chiroptera Neotropical, 10(1-2), December 2004
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 6International 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