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Mesophylla macconnelli (MacConnell's bat)

Synonyms: Ectophylla macconnelli (homotypic); Ectophylla macconnelli flavescens; Mesophylla macconnelli flavescens; Mesophylla macconnelli macconnelli

Wikipedia Abstract

MacConnell's bat, Mesophylla macconnelli, is a bat species from South and Central America. It is monotypic within the genus Mesophylla.
View Wikipedia Record: Mesophylla macconnelli

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
5
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
27
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 11.31
EDGE Score: 2.51
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  6.5 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  90 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  10 %
Forages - Arboreal [2]  100 %
Litter Size [1]  1
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  1.968 inches (5 cm)

Providers

Shelter 
Anthurium jenmanii[1]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Mesophylla macconnelli, Thomas H. Kunz and Idalia M. Pena, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 405, pp. 1-5 (1992)
♦ 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
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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