Pale Spear-nosed Bat

Pale Spear-nosed Bat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Phyllostomidae
Genus: Phyllostomus
Species: P. discolor
Binomial name
Phyllostomus discolor
Wagner, 1843

The Pale Spear-nosed Bat, Phyllostomus discolor, is a bat species from South and Central America.[2] It ranges from southern Mexico to Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, northern Argentina and southeast Brazil.[2]

It eats flowers and fruit as well as insects. For further information on its ecology see here.

One remarkable feature of this bat is that it seems to be able to judge the shape of objects from reflected echos in a manner that is independent of object size. This ability may be widespread among echolocating bats, but in this species that faculty is well documented.

References

  1. ^ Barquez, R., Perez, S., Miller, B. & Diaz, M. (2008). "Phyllostomus discolor". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/17216. Retrieved 23 Jan. 2011. 
  2. ^ a b Simmons, Nancy B. (16 November 2005). "Order Chiroptera (pp. 312-529)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). p. 410. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13801272. 

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