| Glossophaga | |
|---|---|
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| Commissaris's long-tongued bat (Glossophaga commissarisi) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Phyllostomidae |
| Subfamily: | Glossophaginae |
| Genus: | Glossophaga E. Geoffroy, 1818 |
| Type species | |
| Vespertilio soricinus Pallas, 1766 | |
| Species | |
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G. commissarisi | |
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): Jamaican long-tongued bat, Jamaica.
- G. bakeri (Webster & J. K. Jones, 1987): Baker's long-tongued bat, South America.
- G. commissarisi (Gardner, 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 (Martinez & Villa, 1938): western long-tongued bat - Mexico.
- G. mutica (Merriam, 1898): Merriam's long-tongued bat, Mexico, Central America, northern South America
- G. soricina (Pallas, 1766): Pallas's long-tongued bat - Central and South America.
- G. valens (Miller, 1913): Ecuadorian long-tongued bat - Ecuador and Peru.
References
- ↑ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 312–529. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
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