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Long-tongued bats

Glossophaga E. Geoffroy, 1818

Glossophaga (long-tongued bat) is a genus of bats in the leaf-nosed bat family, Phyllostomidae. Members of the genus are native to the American Neotropics.

8 species · 8 branches

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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References

  • Simmons, Nancy B. / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. (2005). Order Chiroptera. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd Ed., Vols. 1 & 2.
  • Baker, Robert J., Steven R. Hoofer, Calvin A. Porter, and Ronald A. Van Den Bussche. (2003). Diversification among New World Leaf-nosed Bats: an evolutionary hypothesis and classification inferred from digenomic congruence of DNA sequence. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Texas Tech University, No. 230.
  • Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. (1993). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd Ed., 3rd Printing.
  • Nogueira, Marcelo R., Isaac P. Lima, Adriano L. Peracchi, and Nancy B. Simmons. (2012). New genus and species of nectar-feeding bat from the Atlantic forest of southeastern Brazil (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae: Glossophaginae). American Museum Novitates, No. 3747.
  • Wilson, D. E., and R. A. Mittermeier, eds. (2019). Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Vol. 9: Bats.
  • Gardner, Alfred L., ed. (2008). Mammals of South America, Vol. 1: Marsupials, Xenarthrans, Shrews, and Bats.

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