Glossophaga

Glossophaga
Commissaris's long-tongued bat (Glossophaga commissarisi)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Phyllostomidae
Subfamily: Glossophaginae
Genus: Glossophaga
E. Geoffroy, 1818
Type species
Vespertilio soricinus
Pallas, 1766
Species

G. commissarisi
G. leachii
G. longirostris
G. morenoi
G. soricina

Glossophaga (long-tongued bat) is a genus of bats in the leaf-nosed bat family, Phyllostomidae.[1] Members of the genus are native to the American Neotropics.

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References

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  1. ^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 312–529. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.