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The banana bat (Musonycteris harrisoni) is an endangered species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is also commonly known as the trumpet-nosed bat[2] or the Colima long-nosed bat.
All bat species in the United States are insectivorous except for three nectar -eating species that migrate from Mexico and one fruit-eating species that inhabits the Florida Keys.
Honduran white bat. The Honduran white bat (Ectophylla alba), also called the Caribbean white tent-making bat, [2] is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomatidae. It is the only member of the genus Ectophylla. The genus and the species were both scientifically described for the first time in 1892. It has distinctive, entirely white fur ...
The Gambian epauletted fruit bats are frugivorous and will appear wherever fig, mango, guava or banana trees are in fruit. The social behavior within fruit-bat camps does not stop at individual family groups. The whole colony is organized, with separate peripheral groups of immatures and non-breeding adults.
Jamaican fruit bat, Artibeus jamaicensis is the best known species. It is spread from The Bahamas and northern Mexico, through Central America and the Caribbean to northwestern Peru. Great fruit-eating bat, Artibeus lituratus is spread from southern Mexico to northern Argentina. Dark fruit-eating bat, Artibeus obscurus lives exclusively in the ...
Artibeus intermedius Allen, 1897. 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 California myotis is a small (70–94 millimetres [2.8–3.7 in] and 3.3–5.4 grams [0.12–0.19 oz]) bat with pale, dull fur. Ears are of medium (12–15 millimetres [0.47–0.59 in]) size, with a narrow, pointed tragus (ear). They have an obviously keeled calcar and very small feet (5–7 millimetres [0.20–0.28 in]), smaller even than the feet of the western small-footed myotis, for ...
The tent-making bat (Uroderma bilobatum) is an American leaf-nosed bat (Phyllostomidae) found in lowland forests of Central and South America. [2] This medium-sized bat has a gray coat with a pale white stripe running down the middle of the back.