Greenhall's dog-faced bat

Greenhall's dog-faced bat
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Molossidae
Genus:	Cynomops
Species:	C. greenhalli
Binomial name
Cynomops greenhalli Goodwin, 1958
Synonyms
Molossops greenhalli

Greenhall's dog-faced bat (Cynomops greenhalli) is a South American bat species of the family Molossidae. ^[2] It lives in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, the Guianas, northeastern Brazil and Trinidad. ^[1]

This insect-eating bat measures 40–97 mm in length. It has yellowish-brown to black coloration on its upper body and a grey underside, with a broad face and widely separated eyes. Its ears are short and rounded, the antitragus square, its lips unwrinkled and the snout broad.

The dog-faced bat lives at low elevations. Colonies of 50–77 roost in hollow branches of large trees. Males and females stay together throughout the year. It is named after Arthur Greenhall, a scientist who led the rabies program at the Trinidad Regional Virus Laboratory in Port of Spain, Trinidad.

References

1. Solari, S. (2015). "Cynomops greenhalli". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T13639A22109178. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T13639A22109178.en .
2. Simmons, N.B. (2005). "Order Chiroptera". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 436437. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.

Sources

• Greenhall, Arthur M. 1961. Bats in Agriculture. A Ministry of Agriculture Publication. Trinidad and Tobago.
• LaVal, Richard. "Records of Bats from Honduras and El Salvador." Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 50, No. 4 (November, 1969), pp. 819–822.
• Linares, Omar J. and Pablo Kiblisky. "The Karyotype and a New Record of Molossops greenhalli from Venezuela." Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 50, No. 4 (November, 1969), pp. 831–832.
• Carter, Gerald G. "A Field key to the Bats of Trinidad." August 2000. Accessed at: https://web.archive.org/web/20070509074216/http://publish.uwo.ca/~gcarter2/Trinidad_batkey_small.pdf.