| Greenhall's dog-faced bat | |
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| Conservation status | |
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Molossidae |
| Genus: | Cynomops |
| Species: | C. greenhalli |
| Binomial name | |
| Cynomops greenhalli Goodwin, 1958 | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Molossops greenhalli | |
Greenhall's dog-faced bat (Cynomops greenhalli) is a South American bat species of the family Molossidae. It lives in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, the Guianas, northeastern Brazil and Trinidad.
This insect-eating bat measures 40–97 mm in length. It has yellowish-brown to black coloration on its upper body and a grey underside, with a broad face and widely separated eyes. Its ears are short and rounded, the antitragus square, its lips unwrinkled and the snout broad.
The dog-faced bat lives at low elevations. Colonies of 50–77 roost in hollow branches of large trees. Males and females stay together throughout the year. It is named after Arthur Greenhall, a scientist who led the rabies program at the Trinidad Regional Virus Laboratory in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
References
- ^ Solari, S. (2015). "Cynomops greenhalli". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T13639A22109178. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T13639A22109178.en.
- Simmons, N.B. (2005). "Order Chiroptera". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 436437. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
Sources
- Greenhall, Arthur M. 1961. Bats in Agriculture. A Ministry of Agriculture Publication. Trinidad and Tobago.
- LaVal, Richard. "Records of Bats from Honduras and El Salvador." Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 50, No. 4 (November, 1969), pp. 819–822.
- Linares, Omar J. and Pablo Kiblisky. "The Karyotype and a New Record of Molossops greenhalli from Venezuela." Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 50, No. 4 (November, 1969), pp. 831–832.
- Carter, Gerald G. "A Field key to the Bats of Trinidad." August 2000. Accessed at: https://web.archive.org/web/20070509074216/http://publish.uwo.ca/~gcarter2/Trinidad_batkey_small.pdf.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Cynomops greenhalli | |
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