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Pipistrellus kuhlii (Kuhl's pipistrelle)

Synonyms: Pipistrellus aegyptius; Pipistrellus deserti; Vesperugo kuhlii

Wikipedia Abstract

The Egyptian pipistrelle (Pipistrellus deserti) is a species of vesper bat. It is found in Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Sudan, and possibly also in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, and Somalia. Its natural habitats are rocky areas, hot deserts, and urban areas. It is considered to be a junior synonym of Pipistrellus kuhlii according to Benda et al. (2015).
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Infraspecies

Pipistrellus kuhlii deserti
Pipistrellus kuhlii ikhwanius
Pipistrellus kuhlii kuhlii
Pipistrellus kuhlii lepidus
Pipistrellus kuhlii marginatus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
21
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.14
EDGE Score: 2.1
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  6 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Aerial [2]  100 %
Litter Size [1]  2
Litters / Year [3]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  8 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  1.968 inches (5 cm)
Weaning [1]  60 days

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External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 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
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 5International Flea Database
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