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Glossophaga soricina (Pallas's long-tongued bat)

Synonyms: Glossophaga soricina soricina; Vespertilio soricinus

Wikipedia Abstract

Pallas's Long-Tongued Bat (Glossophaga soricina) is a South and Central American bat with a fast metabolism that feeds on nectar.
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Infraspecies

Glossophaga soricina leachii

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
23
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.43
EDGE Score: 2.24
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  11.5 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Nectarivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  30 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  40 %
Diet - Nectar [2]  30 %
Gestation [3]  3 months 16 days
Litter Size [3]  1
Litters / Year [3]  2
Maximum Longevity [3]  11 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [1]  1.968 inches (5 cm)
Weaning [3]  61 days
Wing Span [4]  9 inches (.24 m)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Bauhinia ungulata (orchidtree)[5]
Cecropia polystachya (Trumpet tree)[6]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

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
♦ 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
♦ 3de 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
♦ 4Bat-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
♦ 5Phyllostomus discolor, Gary G. Kwiecinski, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 801, pp. 1–11 (2006)
♦ 6Phenology, seed dispersal, and recruitment in Cecropia peltata (Moraceae) in Cost Rican tropical dry forest, Theodore H. Fleming and Charles F. Williams, Journal of Tropical Ecology (1990) 6:163-178
♦ 7Gibson, 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