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Anoura caudifer (tailed tailless bat)

Synonyms: Anoura caudifera; Glossophaga caudifer

Wikipedia Abstract

The tailed tailless bat (Anoura caudifer) is a species of leaf-nosed bat from South America.
View Wikipedia Record: Anoura caudifer

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
23
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.54
EDGE Score: 2.26
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  11 grams
Birth Weight [2]  2 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Nectarivore
Diet - Fruit [3]  30 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  30 %
Diet - Nectar [3]  40 %
Forages - Arboreal [3]  100 %
Gestation [2]  3 months 18 days
Litter Size [2]  1
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [2]  2.362 inches (6 cm)
Wing Span [1]  10 inches (.26 m)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Atlantic Forest Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay No
Cerrado Brazil No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru No

Prey / Diet

Bauhinia ungulata (orchidtree)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Amazona finschi (Lilac-crowned Parrot)1
Glossophaga soricina (Pallas's long-tongued bat)1
Leptonycteris curasoae (southern long-nosed bat)1

Consumers

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Bat-pollinated Flower Assemblages and Bat Visitors at Two Atlantic Forest Sites in Brazil, MARLIES SAZIMA, SILVANA BUZATO and IVAN SAZIMA, Annals of Botany 83: 705–712, 1999
♦ 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
♦ 4Phyllostomus discolor, Gary G. Kwiecinski, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 801, pp. 1–11 (2006)
♦ 5Gibson, 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