Glossophaga

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Glossophaga
Glossophaga commissarisi.jpg
Commissaris's long-tongued bat (Glossophaga commissarisi)
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Phyllostomidae
Subfamily: Glossophaginae
Genus: Glossophaga
E. Geoffroy, 1818
Species

G. commissarisi
G. leachii
G. longirostris
G. morenoi
G. soricina

Glossophaga (long-tongued bat) is a genus of bats in the leaf-nosed bat family, Phyllostomidae.[1] Members of the genus are native to the American Neotropics.

Species[]

  • G. antillarum (Rehn, 1902): , Jamaica.
  • G. bakeri (Webster & J. K. Jones, 1987): , South America.
  • G. commissarisi (, 1962): Commissaris's long-tongued bat - Central and South America.
  • G. leachii (Gray, 1844): gray long-tongued bat - Mexico, Central America.
  • G. longirostris (Miller, 1898): Miller's long-tongued bat - Northern South America, Windward Islands.
  • G. morenoi ( & Villa, 1938): western long-tongued bat - Mexico.
  • G. mutica (Merriam, 1898): , Mexico, Central America, northern South America
  • G. soricina (Pallas, 1766): Pallas's long-tongued bat - Central and South America.
  • G. valens (Miller, 1913): - Ecuador and Peru.

References[]

  1. ^ Simmons, Nancy B. (2005), "Chiroptera", in Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M. (eds.), Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 312–529, ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0, retrieved 13 September 2009


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