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Glossophaga longirostris (Miller's long-tongued bat)

Wikipedia Abstract

Miller's long-tongued bat (Glossophaga longirostris) is a bat species from northern South America and the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles. It is found in northern Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, the Netherlands Antilles and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
View Wikipedia Record: Glossophaga longirostris

Infraspecies

Glossophaga longirostris longirostris
Glossophaga longirostris maricelae
Glossophaga longirostris reclusa
Glossophaga longirostris rostrata

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Not determined do to incomplete vulnerability data.
ED Score: 7.63
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  12 grams
Birth Weight [2]  4.5 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Nectarivore
Diet - Fruit [3]  30 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  40 %
Diet - Nectar [3]  30 %
Gestation [2]  90 days
Litter Size [1]  1
Litters / Year [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  11 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [1]  1.968 inches (5 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Parque Nacional Canaima National Park II 7542183 Venezuela  
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (incl. Tayrona NP) National Park II 1031303 Colombia  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Litomosoides guiterasi[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
♦ 2Glossophaga longirostris, Wm. David Webster, Charles O. Handley, Jr., and Pascual J. Soriano, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 576, pp. 1-5 (1998)
♦ 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
♦ 4Resource availability, diet and reproduction in Glossophaga longirostris (Mammalia: Chiroptera) in an arid zone of the Venezuelan Andes, Maricela Sosa and Pascual J. Soriano, Journal of Tropical Ecology, 12, pp 805-818 (1996)
♦ 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