| Humboldt Big-eared Brown Bat | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Vespertilionidae |
| Genus: | Histiotus |
| Species: | H. humboldti |
| Binomial name | |
| Histiotus humboldti Handley, 1996 |
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Histiotus humboldti is a species of vesper bat in the Vespertilionidae family. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela.
Histiotus humboldti Handley, 1996, according to the IUCN 2010 criteria is currently cataloged with (DD) Data Deficientis, This species is one of the two species of vesper bats of the genus Histiotus known for Ecuador,
Histiotus humboldti is distributed in the subtropical forests of the eastern foothills of the mountains outside of the Ecuadorian Andes, between 800 and 1000-1800 and 2000 meters in the eastern subtropical zoogeographical floor (Albuja et. al. 1980), unlike Histiotus montanus (Philippi and Landbeck, 1861), which is recorded at higher altitudes 1800 and 2000-2800 and 3000-4000 meters and live in other ecosystems of the Andes, on two floors zoogegraficos the Temple and the High Andes (Albuja et. al. 1980)
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