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Glossophaga longirostris Miller 1898

Description

Glossophaga longirostris Miller, 1898. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 330.

TYPE LOCALITY: Colombia, Magdalena, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.

DISTRIBUTION: N Ecuador; Colombia; Venezuela (including Margarita Isl); N Brazil; Guyana; Trinidad and Tobago; Grenada, St. Vincent, Curacao, Bonaire, and Aruba (Lesser Antilles). The record from Dominica is erroneous.

SYNONYMS: campestris, elongata, major, reclusa, rostrata.

COMMENTS: Includes elongata; see Jones and Carter (1976:14) and Koopman (1958:437). Revised by Webster and Handley (1986).

Notes

Published as part of Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, pp. 137-241 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 184, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060

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Biodiversity

Family
Phyllostomidae
Genus
Glossophaga
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Chiroptera
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Miller
Species
longirostris
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Glossophaga longirostris Miller, 1898 sec. Koopman, 1993

References

  • Jones, J. K., Jr., and D. C. Carter. 1976. Annotated checklist, with keys to subfamilies and genera. Part I. Pp. 7 - 38, in Biology of bats of the New World family Phyllostomatidae. Part I (R. J. Baker, J. K. Jones, Jr., and D. C. Carter, eds.). Special Publications, The Museum, Texas Tech University Press, 10: 1 - 218.
  • Koopman, K. F. 1958. Land bridges and ecology in bat distribution on islands off the northern coast of South America. Evolution, 12: 429 - 439.
  • Webster, W. D., and C. O. Handley, Jr. 1986. Systematics of Miller's long-tongued bat Glossophaga longirostris, with description of two new subspecies. Occasional Papers, The Museum, Texas Tech University, 100: 1 - 22.