Greater round-eared bat
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Chiroptera |
Family: | Phyllostomidae |
Genus: | Tonatia |
Species: | T. bidens
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Binomial name | |
Tonatia bidens Spix, 1823
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The greater round-eared bat (Tonatia bidens) is a bat species from South America. It is found in northeastern and southern Brazil, northern Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia.[1][2] The species feeds on fruit as well as hunting small birds. Once caught, birds are taken to a shelter and consumed.[3]
References
- ^ a b Barquez, R.; Diaz, M. (2016). "Tonatia bidens". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T21983A21975435. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T21983A21975435.en.
- ^ 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 12 September 2009.
- ^ Martuscelli, Paulo (2009). "Avian predation by the Round-eared Bat ( Tonatia bidens, Phyllostomidae) in the Brazilian Atlantic forest". Journal of Tropical Ecology. 11 (3): 461–464. doi:10.1017/S0266467400008944.