Davy\'s Naked-backed Bat

Davy's Naked-backed Bat

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Mormoopidae
Genus:	Pteronotus
Species:	P. The conservation status of a Species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species remaining extant either in the present day or the near future Least Concern ( LC) is an IUCN category assigned to extant species or lower taxa which have been evaluated but do not qualify for any other category The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List) created in 1963 is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global Chordates ( Phylum Chordata) are a group of Animals that includes the Vertebrates together with several closely related Invertebrates Mammals ( class Mammalia) are a class of Vertebrate Animals characterized by the presence of Sweat glands, including sweat glands The family Mormoopidae contains Bats known generally as moustache bats, ghost-faced bats, and naked-backed bats. Pteronotus is a genus of Bats Seven extant species have been recognized as well as one relatively recently extinct species davyi

Binomial name

Pteronotus davyi
Gray, 1838

Subspecies^[2]

P. d. davyi
P. d. fulvus
P. d. incae

The Davy's Naked-backed Bat, Pteronotus davyi, is a small insect-eating, cave-dwelling bat and is found throughout South and Central America, including Trinidad, but not Tobago. South America is a Continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a Trinidad ( Spanish: " Trinity " is the largest and most populous of the two major islands and Tobago is the smaller of the two main islands that make up the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Its wings are attached to the top of its body instead of to the sides, as in all other bat species. Specimens of this bat have been found infected with rabies in Trinidad. Rabies (from rabies “madness rage fury” Also known as “ hydrophobia ” is a viral Zoonotic neuroinvasive disease that ^[3]

It has been reported as one of three bat species observed being eaten by the Giant centipede in a cave in Venezuela, which hangs on the roofs of the caves and literally grabs the bats out of the air, killing them with its sting and then eating them. Scolopendra gigantea, the Peruvian giant yellowleg centipede or Amazonian giant centipede, is the largest representative of the genus Scolopendra ^[4] The other two species of bats observed being eaten by Giant Centipedes were Mormoops megalophylla and Leptonycteris curasoae. UserPolbot. -->The Ghost-faced Bat ( Mormoops megalophylla) is a species of Bat in the Mormoopidae UserPolbot. -->The Southern Long-nosed Bat ( Leptonycteris curasoae) is a species of Bat in the

Footnotes

^ Chiroptera Specialist Group (1996). Pteronotus davyi. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List) created in 1963 is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global IUCN 2007. Retrieved on 09 June 2008.
^ http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13801483
^ Greenhall, Arthur M. 1961. Bats in Agriculture. A Ministry of Agriculture Publication. Trinidad and Tobago.
^ [1] "Predation by Giant Centipedes, Scolopendra gigantea, on Three Species of Bats in a Venezuelan Cave. Scolopendra gigantea, the Peruvian giant yellowleg centipede or Amazonian giant centipede, is the largest representative of the genus Scolopendra " Molinari, Jesús, et al. 2005. Caribbean Journal of Science, Vol. 41, No. 2. 340-346.

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