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Otonycteris hemprichii (desert long-eared bat)

Synonyms: Otonycteris hemprichi

Wikipedia Abstract

The desert long-eared bat (Otonycteris hemprichii) is a species of vesper bat.
View Wikipedia Record: Otonycteris hemprichii

Infraspecies

Otonycteris hemprichii cinerea
Otonycteris hemprichii hemprichii
Otonycteris hemprichii jin

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
21
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.63
EDGE Score: 2.16
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  20 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Litter Size [3]  1
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  3.937 inches (10 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Azraq Wetland Reserve IV   Jordan
Kopetdagh Zapovednik State Nature Reserve Ia 125705 Turkmenistan  
Mujib Nature Reserve Wildlife Reserve IV   Jordan
Wadi Rum Protected Area National Park V   Jordan  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Predators

Asio otus (Long-eared Owl)[4]
Tyto alba (Barn Owl)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Rictularia macdonaldi[5]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Otonycteris hemprichii, Burhan M. Gharaibeh and Mazin B. Qumsiyeh, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 514, pp. 1-4 (1995)
♦ 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
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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