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Glossophaga
Sign in to saveGlossophaga (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.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderChiroptera
- FamilyPhyllostomidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 920
- With media
- 8
- Family
- Phyllostomidae
- Collections
- MSU, IBUNAM, AMNH, MVZ, UWBM, MSB
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Bolivia
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- Glossophaga commissarisi.jpg
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- Glossophaga
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- taxon common name
- Long-tongued Bats.
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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.
==Species== G. antillarum (Rehn, 1902): Jamaican long-tongued bat, Jamaica. G. bakeri (Webster & J. K. Jones, 1987): Baker's long-tongued bat, South America. 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. mutica (Merriam, 1898): Merriam's long-tongued bat, Mexico, Central America, northern South America G. soricina (Pallas, 1766): Pallas's long-tongued bat - Central and South America. G. valens (Miller, 1913): Ecuadorian long-tongued bat - Ecuador and Peru.
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