Broad-Toothed Tailless Bat - Anoura latidens
( Handley, 1984 )

 

 

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Subspecies: Unknown
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CITES Status: NOT LISTED
IUCN Status: Least Concern
U.S. ESA Status: NOT LISTED

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Life Span: in the Wild
Life Span: in Captivity

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Habitat:
It is strongly associated with tropical evergreen forest (Handley 1976). It feeds on nectar, insects, fruit and pollen. It roosts in small groups in caves or tree hollows and is found in lowland rainforest, deciduous forest, gardens and plantations. It is common only where there are caves or rock crevices, and rare or perhaps absent from lowland Amazonian forests lacking high ground, rocks and caves (Emmons and Feer 1997).

Range:
This species has a discontinuous range. It occurs in Venezuela, Guyana, Colombia and Peru (Simmons 2005). The elevation range is 50 to 2,100 m asl in Venezuela (Linares 1998).

Conservation:
It occurs in national parks throughout its range.

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