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Davies's Big-eared Bat
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Bats

Davies's Big-eared Bat

Glyphonycteris daviesi (Hill, 1964)

LC Least Concern

Names

EnglishDavies's Big-eared Bat
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Scientific nameGlyphonycteris daviesi (Hill, 1964)

About this species

Davies's big-eared bat or the graybeard bat (Glyphonycteris daviesi) is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is named after James (Jim) Noel Davies (B. 1936) who discovered it whilst on an expedition in Guyana. This was the Cambridge University expedition to the rainforest reserve near Bartica in what was then British Guiana, South America. This species can weigh 30 grams and has a wingspan of up to 50cm. It is bigger than most micronycteris bats with a fierce disposition. A small frog was found in the stomach of a specimen, and the bat is strong-willed enough to chew its way out of a cloth bag.

The species is found across the tropical regions of Central America and South America; including Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. It is recorded (2021) in the Eponym Dictionary, published by Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore USA.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassMammalia
OrderChiroptera
FamilyPhyllostomidae
GenusGlyphonycteris

In Suriname

14Records in Suriname
2002First record
2009Latest record

Where it has been recorded

  • Brokopondo6
  • Sipaliwini5

Districts with at least one record that has coordinates. Shaded districts have records.

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