Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Chiroptera > Phyllostomidae > Scleronycteris > Scleronycteris egaScleronycteris ega (ega long-tongued bat)The Ega long-tongued bat (Scleronycteris ega) is a bat species from South America. It is found in northwestern Brazil and southern Venezuela. It is monotypic within its genus. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 8.4 EDGE Score: 2.24 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 50 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Nectarivore | | Diet - Fruit [2] | 30 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 30 % | | Diet - Nectar [2] | 40 % | | Forages - Arboreal [2] | 100 % | | | Nocturnal [2] | Yes | | Snout to Vent Length [1] | 2.362 inches (6 cm) |
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Guianan Highlands moist forests |
Venezuela, Brazil, Guyana, Colombia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Guianan piedmont and lowland moist forests |
Brazil, Venezuela |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Japurá-Solimoes-Negro moist forests |
Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Negro-Branco moist forests |
Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Pantepuis |
Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Purus varzea |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Rio Negro campinarana |
Brazil, Colombia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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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 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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