Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Chiroptera > Phyllostomidae > Carollia > Carollia perspicillata

Carollia perspicillata (Seba's short-tailed bat)

Synonyms: Hemiderma brevicauda; Hemiderma perspicillatum; Phyllostoma brevicaudum; Vespertilio perspicillata; Vespertilio perspicillatus

Wikipedia Abstract

Seba's short-tailed bat (Carollia perspicillata) is a common and widespread bat species in the family Phyllostomidae. They are found in Central America, the northern parts of South America, and in the Antilles islands.
View Wikipedia Record: Carollia perspicillata

Infraspecies

Carollia perspicillata azteca
Carollia perspicillata perspicillata
Carollia perspicillata tricolor

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
22
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.2
EDGE Score: 2.22
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  15 grams
Birth Weight [1]  5 grams
Diet [2]  Frugivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  100 %
Forages - Arboreal [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  8 months 18 days
Male Maturity [1]  8 months 18 days
Gestation [1]  3 months 5 days
Litter Size [1]  1
Litters / Year [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  17 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  2.756 inches (7 cm)
Wing Span [4]  12 inches (.316 m)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Trachops cirrhosus (fringe-lipped bat)[10]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de 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
♦ 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
♦ 3Nathan 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
♦ 4Allometry of Bat Wings and Legs and Comparison with Bird Wings, Ulla M. Norberg, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 1981 292, 359-398
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 6Animals of the Rainforest
♦ 7"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
♦ 8The diet of fruit-eating bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) in a small Semideciduous Seasonal Forest remnant in south Brazil, Sandra Bos Mikich, Rev. Bras. Zool. vol.19 no.1 Curitiba Mar. 2002
♦ 9Food niche overlap among neotropical frugivorous bats in Costa Rica, Jorge E. Lopez & Christopher Vaughan, Rev. Biol. Trop. (Int. J. Trop. Biol. ISSN-0034-7744) Vol. 55 (1): 301-313, March 2007
♦ 10FOOD HABITS OF THE FROG - EATING BAT , TRACHOPS CIRRHOSUS , IN ATLANTIC FOREST OF NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL, Flavio H. G. Rodrigues, Marcelo L. Reis & Vivian S. Braz, Chiroptera Neotropical, 10(1-2), December 2004
♦ 11Gibson, 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