White-throated round-eared bat

White-throated round-eared bat
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Phyllostomidae
Genus: Lophostoma
Species: L. silvicolum
Binomial name
Lophostoma silvicolum
D'Orbigny, 1836
Distribution of the white-throated round-eared bat

The white-throated round-eared bat (Lophostoma silvicolum) is a South and Central American bat species[2] found from Honduras to Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil.[1] It creates roosts inside the nests of the termite, Nasutitermes corniger.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Barquez, R.; Diaz, M.; Pineda, W.; Rodriguez, B. (2016). "Lophostoma silvicolum". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T88149202A22041651.
  2. ↑ Simmons, N.B. (2005). "Order Chiroptera". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 406. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  3. ↑ Dechmann, D. K. N.; Kalko, E. K. V.; König, B.; Kerth, G. (2005-03-09). "Mating system of a Neotropical roost-making bat: the white-throated, round-eared bat, Lophostoma silvicolum (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae)". Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. Springer. 58 (3): 316–325. doi:10.1007/s00265-005-0913-y. Retrieved 2011-02-12.


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