Glossophaginae

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Glossophaginae
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Geoffroy's tailless bat (Anoura geoffroyi)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Phyllostomidae
Subfamily: Glossophaginae
Bonaparte, 1845
Tribes & Genera

Glossophagini

Anoura
Choeroniscus
Choeronycteris
Dryadonycteris
Glossophaga
Hylonycteris
Leptonycteris
Lichonycteris
Monophyllus
Musonycteris
Scleronycteris

Glossophaginae is a subfamily of leaf-nosed bats. [1] [2]

List of species

Subfamily: Glossophaginae

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Leaf-nosed bat</span> Family of bats

The New World leaf-nosed bats (Phyllostomidae) are found from southern North America to South America, specifically from the Southwest United States to northern Argentina. They are ecologically the most varied and diverse family within the order Chiroptera. Most species are insectivorous, but the phyllostomid bats include within their number true predatory species and frugivores. For example, the spectral bat, the largest bat in the Americas, eats vertebrate prey, including small, dove-sized birds. Members of this family have evolved to use food groups such as fruit, nectar, pollen, insects, frogs, other bats, and small vertebrates, and in the case of the vampire bats, even blood.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lesser long-nosed bat</span> Species of bat

The lesser long-nosed bat is a medium-sized bat found in Central and North America. It is sometimes known as Sanborn's long-nosed bat or the Mexican long-nosed bat, though the latter name is better avoided since it is also used for the entire genus Leptonycteris and for one of the other species in it, the greater long-nosed bat.

<i>Anoura</i> Genus of bats

Anoura is a genus of leaf-nosed bats from Central and South America. Anoura members lack or have a short tail, and are nectarivorous bats of small to medium size among the Phyllostomidae.

<i>Dryadonycteris capixaba</i> Species of bat

Dryadonycteris capixaba is a species of leaf-nosed bat found in South America. It is the only species within the genus Dryadonycteris.

References

  1. Simmons, Nancy B. (2005), "Chiroptera", in Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M. (eds.), Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 312–529, ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0 , retrieved 5 October 2009
  2. Parlos, J. A.; Timm, R. M.; Swier, V. J.; Zeballos, H.; Baker, R. J. (2014). "Evaluation of the paraphyletic assemblages within Lonchophyllinae, with description of a new tribe and genus". Occasional Papers. Museum of Texas Tech University. 320: i + 1–23. hdl:1808/12873.