Western sucker-footed bat
Western sucker-footed bat | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Chiroptera |
Family: | Myzopodidae |
Genus: | Myzopoda |
Species: | M. schliemanni
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Binomial name | |
Myzopoda schliemanni Goodman et al., 2006
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Western sucker-footed bat range |
The western sucker-footed bat (Myzopoda schliemanni) is a Malagasy bat. Little is known about its habits, but they are assumed to be similar to those of the Madagascar sucker-footed bat.[2]
Physical characteristics[]
The western sucker-footed bat is 92–107 mm (0.302–0.351 ft) long. It has large ears, and prominent suckers on its feet and thumbs. It has buff-brown upper parts, and mouse-gray underparts.[2]
Range and habitat[]
The western sucker-footed bat has been found on three lowland sites in north-western Madagascar. They were found in broad-leaf rain forest.[2] The western sucker-footed bat is found in dry deciduous forests.[3]
Diet[]
M. schliemanni also feeds extensively on Lepidoptera, as well as Blattaria, and to a much smaller extent on Hymenoptera and Coleoptera. The Andranomanitsy Forest is in a zone that experiences a prolonged annual dry season, during the end of which our sampling was made, and invertebrate diversity and density presumably experience considerable seasonal variation.[4]
References[]
- ^ Monadjem, A.; Cardiff, S.G.; Rakotoarivelo, A.R.; Jenkins, R.K.B.; Ratrimomanarivo, F.H. (2017). "Myzopoda schliemanni". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: e.T136465A21986182. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T136465A21986182.en.
- ^ a b c Garbutt, Nick; Mammals of Madagascar; Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007: pg 73
- ^ russell (19 February 2008). "Journal of Mammalogy". Population Genetic Analysis of Myzopoda (Chiroptera: Myzopodidae) in Madagascar (1): 209–221.
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(help) - ^ Rajemison, B., & Goodman, S. M. (2007). The diet of Myzopoda schliemanni, a recently described Malagasy endemic, based on scat analysis. Acta Chiropterologica, 9(1), 311-313. doi:10.3161/1733-5329(2007)9[311:tdomsa]2.0.co;2
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Myzopodidae
- Bats of Africa
- Endemic fauna of Madagascar
- Mammals of Madagascar
- Mammals described in 2006
- Bat stubs