Curacao Myotis - Myotis nesopolus
( Miller, 1900 )

 

 

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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:
Curacao Myotis is strongly insectivorous, feeding especially on small aerial insects (e.g., flies or moths) that they catch in open semi-arid areas. It is generally found in small colonies (Linares 1998).

Range:
This species occurs in the northwest Venezuela, and Curaçao and Bonaire Islands (Netherlands Antilles) (Simmons 2005), and it may also be in Aruba. It is also found in northeast Colombia (Muñuz G. and Mantilla-Meluk 2012, Solari et al. 2013).

Conservation:
The species needs conservation attention in island parts of its range.

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