Greenhall's dog-faced bat (''Cynomops greenhalli'') is a
South American
bat species of the family
Molossidae.
It is found in
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
,
Peru,
Ecuador,
Venezuela, the
Guianas
The Guianas, sometimes called by the Spanish loan-word ''Guayanas'' (''Las Guayanas''), is a region in north-eastern South America which includes the following three territories:
* French Guiana, an overseas department and region of France
* ...
, northeastern
Brazil and
Trinidad.
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It is an insect-eating bat, 40–97 mm in length. Yellowish brown to black above, grey underneath, it is broad-faced with widely separated eyes. Its ears are short and rounded; the antitragus is square; its lips are not wrinkled; it has a broad snout. Mostly it is found at low elevations. Colonies of 50–77 roost in hollow branches of large trees. Males and females stay together throughout the year. The species is named after Arthur Greenhall, a scientist who was in charge of the rabies program at the ]Trinidad Regional Virus Laboratory
The Trinidad Regional Virus Laboratory (T.R.V.L.) was established in Port of Spain, in 1953 by the Rockefeller Foundation in co-operation with the Government of Trinidad and Tobago. It was originally housed in an old wooden army barracks near the d ...
in Port of Spain
Port of Spain (Spanish: ''Puerto España''), officially the City of Port of Spain (also stylized Port-of-Spain), is the capital of Trinidad and Tobago and the third largest municipality, after Chaguanas and San Fernando. The city has a municip ...
, Trinidad.
References
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.
Cynomops
Mammals described in 1958
Bats of South America
Mammals of Colombia
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