World Species : Myotis welwitschii (Welwitch's bat)

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Myotis welwitschii (Welwitch's bat)

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Synonyms: Scotophilus welwitschii

Wikipedia Abstract

Welwitsch's bat (Myotis welwitschii) is a species of vesper bat native to Africa.

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 5.82

EDGE Score: 1.92

Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	15.5 grams

Diet ^[2]	Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates ^[2]	100 %
Forages - Aerial ^[2]	100 %

Nocturnal ^[2]	Yes

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Albertine Rift montane forests	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi,Tanzania	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Angolan Miombo woodlands	Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Central Zambezian Miombo woodlands	Tanzania, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Zambia, Malawi	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Eastern Arc forests	Tanzania, Kenya	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Eastern Zimbabwe montane forest-grassland mosaic	Zimbabwe, Mozambique	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Ethiopian montane grasslands and woodlands	Ethiopia, Eritrea	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Highveld grasslands	South Africa	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
KwaZulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic	South Africa	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
South Malawi montane forest-grassland mosaic	Malawi, Mozambique	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Southern Africa bushveld	Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Southern Miombo woodlands	Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Southern Rift montane forest-grassland mosaic	Malawi, Tanzania	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Southern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic	Mozambique, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Zambezian and Mopane woodlands	South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Namibia, Malawi	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands	Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name	IUCN Category	Area acres	Location
Kibale National Park	II	196202	Uganda
Kruger National Park	II	4718115	Mpumalanga, South Africa
Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Reserve			Mpumalanga, South Africa

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic	Species	Website
Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa	Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania	No
Eastern Afromontane	Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe	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

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