Humboldt big-eared brown bat
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Species: | H. humboldti
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Histiotus humboldti Handley, 1996
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Humboldt big-eared brown bat (Histiotus humboldti) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela.
Histiotus humboldti is distributed in the subtropical forests of the eastern foothills of the mountains outside the Ecuadorian Andes, between 800 and 1000-1800 and 2000 meters in the eastern subtropical zoogeographical floor (Albuja et. al. 1980), unlike Histiotus montanus (Philippi and Landbeck, 1861), which is recorded at higher altitudes 1800 and 2000-2800 and 3000–4000 meters and live in other ecosystems of the Andes, on two floors zoogegraficos the Temple and the High Andes (Albuja et al. 1980)
Sources
- Velazco, P. & Aguirre, L. 2008. Histiotus humboldti. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 16 March 2009.
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