World Species : Artibeus cinereus (Gervais's fruit-eating bat)

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Artibeus cinereus (Gervais's fruit-eating bat)

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Synonyms: Dermanura cinerea; Dermanura cinereum

Wikipedia Abstract

Gervais's fruit-eating bat (Artibeus cinereus) is a bat species from South and Central America. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela.

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 7.21

EDGE Score: 2.11

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	12.6 grams

Diet ^[2]	Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Nectarivore
Diet - Fruit ^[2]	80 %
Diet - Invertibrates ^[2]	10 %
Diet - Nectar ^[2]	10 %
Forages - Arboreal ^[2]	100 %

Litter Size ^[3]	1
Nocturnal ^[2]	Yes

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Amazon-Orinoco-Southern Caribbean mangroves	Brazil, Columbia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela	Neotropic	Mangroves
Apure-Villavicencio dry forests	Colombia, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Araya and Paria xeric scrub	Venezuela	Neotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Catatumbo moist forests	Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Cordillera La Costa montane forests	Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan Freshwater swamp forests	Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan Highlands moist forests	Venezuela, Brazil, Guyana, Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan moist forests	Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan piedmont and lowland moist forests	Brazil, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan savanna	Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
La Costa xeric shrublands	Venezuela	Neotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Lara-Falcón dry forests	Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Lesser Antillean dry forests	Grenada, St. Lucia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Llanos	Colombia, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Maracaibo dry forests	Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Marajó varzea	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Negro-Branco moist forests	Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Orinoco Delta swamp forests	Venezuela, Guyana	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Orinoco wetlands	Venezuela	Neotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Pantepuis	Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Paraguana xeric scrub	Venezuela	Neotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Rio Negro campinarana	Brazil, Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Trinidad and Tobago moist forests	Trinidad and Tobago	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Uatuma-Trombetas moist forests	Brazil, Guyana, Suriname	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Venezuelan Andes montane forests	Colombia, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Windward Islands moist forests	Martinique, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic
Caribbean Islands	Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S.	No
Cerrado	Brazil	No
Tropical Andes	Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela	No

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Felisa A. Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons, S. K. Morgan Ernest, Kate E. Jones, Dawn M. Kaufman, Tamar Dayan, Pablo A. Marquet, James H. Brown, and John P. Haskell. 2003. Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84:3403
♦ 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

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