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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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| Jumping Ability: | (Horizontal) |
| Life Span: | in the Wild |
| Life Span: | in Captivity |
| Sexual Maturity: | (Females) |
| Sexual Maturity: | (Males) |
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Habitat:
This species is rare and poorly known. This bat is mainly frugivorous (Soriano and Molinari 1987) and possibly feeds on pollen and nectar. A single young is born annually (Eisenberg and Redford, 1999). Associtaed to habitats of dry interandean, and lower and upper montane forests from 1,650 to 3,165 m a.s.l. (Pacheco and Hocking 2006).
Range:
This Andean species occurs in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru (Gardner 2008). The records from Ecuador have no precise locality but correspond to this species (Peterson and Tamsitt 1968). A recent record extend this range to southern Peru (Pacheco and Hocking 2006).
Conservation:
Occurs in a few protected areas in Venezuela, Colombia and Peru; however, much of the critical areas connecting the scattered localities where the species is recorded are unprotected and facing a number of threats.