Glossophaga

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Glossophaga
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Phyllostomidae
Genus: Glossophaga
E. Geoffroy, 1818
Species

G. commissarisi
G. leachii
G. longirostris
G. morenoi
G. soricina

Glossophaga is a genus of bats in the leaf-nosed bat family, Phyllostomidae.[1] Members of the genus are native to the American Neotropics.

Species

  • G. commissarisi (Gardner, 1962): Commissaris's Long-tongued Bat - Central and South America
  • G. leachii (Gray, 1844): Gray Long-tongued Bat - Mexico, Central America
  • G. longirostris (Miller, 1898): Miller's Long-tongued Bat - Northern South America, Windward Islands
  • G. morenoi (Martinez & Villa, 1938): Western Long-tongued Bat - Mexico
  • G. soricina (Pallas, 1766): Pallas's Long-tongued Bat - Central and South America

References

  1. Simmons, Nancy B. (2005), "Chiroptera", in Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M., 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 13 September 2009 
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