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Genus Artibeus - Neotropical fruit bats Subgenus Artibeus. Ecuadorian fruit-eating bat, Artibeus aequatorialis from Ecuador, Peru and Colombia. Large fruit-eating bat, Artibeus amplus lives in Colombia, Venezuela, and Guyana. Fringed fruit-eating bat, Artibeus fimbriatus has its habitat in southern Brazil, in Paraguay and northern Argentina.
The great fruit-eating bat (Artibeus lituratus) is a bat species found from Mexico to Brazil and Argentina, as well as in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Grenada, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago.
The fraternal fruit-eating bat is the smallest species of large Artibeus (a group that also includes the Jamaican fruit bat, flat-faced fruit-eating bat, and great fruit-eating bat), [5] with a forearm length of 52–59 mm (2.0–2.3 in) and total length of 64–76 mm (2.5–3.0 in).
A Jamaican fruit-eating bat plucks its food and carries it away with its mouth before eating it in its roosts. As such it can disperse seeds fairly far. [ 13 ] Fruit bats have been recorded carrying fruits weighing 3–14 g (0.11–0.49 oz) or even as much as 50 g (1.8 oz).
Dark fruit-eating bats are relatively small, with an average body length of 8 cm (3.1 in), and weighing from 30 to 52 g (1.1 to 1.8 oz). Their fur is longer and darker than that of their closest relatives, being dark brown to sooty black over most of the body, with a white frosting. The underparts are paler, and there are also faint stripes of ...
Artibeus inopinatus is a fruit eating bat native to Central America, of the order Chiroptera, family Phyllostomidae. [2] Although the Honduran fruit-eating bat is considered data deficient by the IUCN, [1] accounts suggest that they display many of the characteristic features of the Neotropical fruit bats (Arbiteus), and are morphologically very similar to the close relative A. hirsutus.
Artibeus aequatorialis, also known as Anderson's fruit-eating bat or the Ecuadorian fruit-eating bat, [2] is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. The bat is endemic to northwestern South America west of the Andes mountain range.
Artibeus schwartzi, or Schwartz's fruit-eating bat, is a species of bat found in the Lesser Antilles. It was previously considered a subspecies of the Jamaican fruit bat, (A. jamaicensis). It has been hypothesized that it arose from hybridization of three Artibeus species: A. jamaicensis, A. planirostris, and an unknown third species. [2]