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Artibeus obscurus (dark fruit-eating bat)

Synonyms: Artibeus fuliginosus; Phyllostoma obscurum

Wikipedia Abstract

The dark fruit-eating bat (Artibeus obscurus), is a bat species from South America.
View Wikipedia Record: Artibeus obscurus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
13
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.89
EDGE Score: 1.59
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  37 grams
Birth Weight [2]  9 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Nectarivore
Diet - Fruit [3]  80 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  10 %
Diet - Nectar [3]  10 %
Forages - Arboreal [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [2]  9 months 18 days
Male Maturity [2]  1 year
Gestation [2]  3 months 17 days
Litter Size [2]  1
Litters / Year [2]  2
Maximum Longevity [2]  19 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [2]  3.543 inches (9 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Atlantic Forest Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

Prey / Diet

Ficus insipida[4]
Inga marginata[1]
Pourouma cecropiifolia (Amazon Grape)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Artibeus obscurus, Michelle A. Haynes and Thomas E. Lee, Jr., MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 752, pp. 1–5 (2004)
♦ 2Nathan 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
♦ 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
♦ 4"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
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