Miller's long-tongued bat
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Phyllostomidae
Genus: Glossophaga
Species:
G. longirostris
Binomial name
Glossophaga longirostris
Miller, 1898

Miller's long-tongued bat (Glossophaga longirostris) is a bat species found in northern Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, the Netherlands Antilles and the U.S. Virgin Islands.[1][2] It was described as a new species in 1898 by American zoologist Gerrit Smith Miller Jr.. The holotype had been collected in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta of Colombia by Wilmot Wood Brown Jr.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Solari, S. (2018). "Glossophaga longirostris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T9275A22108249. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T9275A22108249.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. Simmons, Nancy B. (2005), "Chiroptera", in Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M. (eds.), Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 312–529, ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0, retrieved 13 September 2009
  3. Miller, G. S. (1898). Descriptions of five new phyllostome bats. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University. pp. 334–337. Retrieved October 10, 2017.


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