Rosenberg's fruit-eating bat

Rosenberg's fruit-eating bat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Phyllostomidae
Genus: Artibeus
Species: A. rosenbergi
Binomial name
Artibeus rosenbergi
Thomas, 1897

Rosenberg's fruit-eating bat, Artibeus rosenbergi (often misspelled rosenbergii[2]), is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is found in humid tropical forests in the El Chocó region on the coast of western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador at altitudes below 500 m.[1] Until recently it was included within A. glaucus,[3] a canopy frugivore that also eats insects.[1] It is threatened by deforestation.[1] The specific name is in honor of collector W. F. H. Rosenberg.

References

  1. ^ a b c d Solari, S. & Mantilla, H. (2008). "Artibeus rosenbergii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/136505. Retrieved 10 January 2010. 
  2. ^ Gardner, Alfred L. (2008). Mammals of South America: Marsupials, xenarthrans, shrews, and bats. University of Chicago Press. pp. 669 (see p. 320). ISBN 0226282406. http://books.google.com/books?id=dbU3d7EUCm8C&source=gbs_navlinks_s. 
  3. ^ 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.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13801363.