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Anoura geoffroyi (Geoffroy's tailless bat)

Wikipedia Abstract

Geoffroy's tailless bat (Anoura geoffroyi) is a species of phyllostomid bat from the American tropics.
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Infraspecies

Anoura geoffroyi geoffroyi
Anoura geoffroyi lasiopyga

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]  15 grams
Birth Weight [2]  5 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]  4 months
Litter Size [2]  1
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [2]  10 years
Nocturnal [4]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [1]  2.756 inches (7 cm)
Wing Span [5]  11 inches (.28 m)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Amazona xanthops (Yellow-faced Amazon)1
Aratinga aurea (Peach-fronted Parakeet)1
Callithrix penicillata (black-pencilled marmoset)1
Cyanocorax cristatellus (Curl-crested Jay)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Litomosoides brasiliensis[8]
Litomosoides guiterasi[8]
Pollinator of 
Espostoa frutescens[7]
Passiflora ovalis[5]
Vriesea longiscapa[5]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan 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
♦ 2de 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
♦ 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
♦ 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
♦ 5Bat-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
♦ 6Anoura geoffroyi (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), JORGE ORTEGA AND IVAN ALARCON-D., MAMMALIAN SPECIES 818:1–7 (2008)
♦ 7"Call of the Bloom", Susan McGrath, National Geographic, March 2014
♦ 8Gibson, 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