Hairy Big-Eyed Bat - Chiroderma villosum
( Peters, 1860 )

 

 

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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 Captivity

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Habitat:
This species is poorly known. In Venezuela, it is strongly associated with moist habitats and multistratal tropical evergreen forest (Handley 1976), also second growth forest, clearings and fruit groves (Reid 1997). It feed on fruits, especially figs, and roosts in trees hollows (Emmons and Feer 1997).

Range:
This species occurs in Central and South America. This species occurs from Hidalgo and Veracruz, Mexico south through the Isthmus, over much of northern South America to western and southern Brazil, Bolivia and Peru. It is also in Trinidad and Tobago (Eisenberg 1989, Reid 1997). In Venezuela it occurs in lowlands below 600 m asl (Handley 1976).

Conservation:
This species occurs in a number of protected areas throughout its range.

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