Humboldt big-eared brown bat

Humboldt big-eared brown bat (Histiotus humboldti) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela.

Humboldt big-eared brown bat
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Genus: Histiotus
Species:
H. humboldti
Binomial name
Histiotus humboldti
Handley, 1996

Histiotus humboldti is distributed in the subtropical forests of the eastern foothills of the mountains outside the Ecuadorian Andes, between 800 and 1000-1800 and 2000 meters in the eastern subtropical zoogeographical floor (Albuja et. al. 1980), unlike Histiotus montanus (Philippi and Landbeck, 1861), which is recorded at higher altitudes 1800 and 2000-2800 and 3000–4000 meters and live in other ecosystems of the Andes, on two floors zoogegraficos the Temple and the High Andes (Albuja et al. 1980)

Sources

  1. Velazco, P.; Aguirre, L. (2016). "Histiotus humboldti". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T29606A22046003. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T29606A22046003.en.


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