World Species : Ectophylla alba (white bat)

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Ectophylla alba (white bat)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Honduran white bat (Ectophylla alba) has snow white fur and a yellow nose and ears. It is tiny, only 3.7-4.7 cm long. The only member of the genus Ectophylla, it is found in Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and western Panama at elevations from sea level to 700 m. It feeds at least in part on fruit.

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 8.37

EDGE Score: 2.93

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	5 grams

Diet ^[2]	Frugivore
Diet - Fruit ^[2]	100 %
Forages - Arboreal ^[2]	100 %

Litter Size ^[1]	1
Litters / Year ^[3]	2
Nocturnal ^[2]	Yes
Snout to Vent Length ^[3]	1.968 inches (5 cm)

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Central American Atlantic moist forests	Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Central American dry forests	Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Central American pine-oak forests	Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Costa Rican seasonal moist forests	Costa Rica	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Isthmian-Atlantic moist forests	Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Mesoamerican Gulf-Caribbean mangroves	Bahamas, United Kingdom	Neotropic	Mangroves
Miskito pine forests	Honduras, Nicaragua	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Talamancan montane forests	Costa Rica, Panama	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

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Providers

Shelter
Heliconia imbricata	^[1]
Heliconia latispatha (expanded lobsterclaw)	^[1]
Heliconia pogonantha	^[1]
Heliconia sarapiquensis	^[1]
Heliconia tortuosa	^[1]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Ectophylla alba, Robert M. Timm, Mammalian Species No. 166, pp. 1-4 (1982)
♦ 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

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