Greenhall's dog-faced bat
| Greenhall's dog-faced bat | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Molossidae |
| Genus: | Cynomops |
| Species: | C. greenhalli |
| Binomial name | |
| Cynomops greenhalli (Goodwin, 1958) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Molossops greenhalli | |
Greenhall's dog-faced bat (Cynomops greenhalli) is a South American bat species of the family Molossidae.[2] It is found in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, the Guianas, northeastern Brazil and Trinidad.[1]
It is an insect-eating bat, 40–97 mm in length. Yellowish brown to black above, grey underneath, it is broad-faced with widely separated eyes. Its ears areshort and rounded; the antitragus is square; its lips arenot wrinkled; it has a broad snout. Mostly it is found at low elevations. Colonies of 50–77 roost in hollow branches of large trees. Males and females stay together throughout the year.
References
- 1 2 Sampaio, E., Lim, B. & Peters, S. (2008). "Cynomops greenhalli". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
- ↑ Simmons, N.B. (2005). "Order Chiroptera". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 436437. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- Greenhall, Arthur M. 1961. Bats in Agriculture. A Ministry of Agriculture Publication. Trinidad and Tobago.
- LaVal, Richard. "Records of Bats from Honduras and El Salvador." Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 50, No. 4 (November, 1969), pp. 819–822.
- Linares, Omar J. and Pablo Kiblisky. "The Karyotype and a New Record of Molossops greenhalli from Venezuela." Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 50, No. 4 (November, 1969), pp. 831–832.
- Carter, Gerald G. "A Field key to the Bats of Trinidad." August 2000. Accessed at: http://publish.uwo.ca/~gcarter2/Trinidad_batkey_small.pdf.
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