Sturnira angeli, known as the Guadeloupe yellow-shouldered bat or Angel's yellow-shouldered bat, is a fruit-eating bat of the family Phyllostomidae that lives only in the Lesser Antilles. It was long treated as a subspecies of Sturnira lilium and has since been raised to full species rank. Despite the family's common name, this bat is uniformly grayish-brown and lacks the yellow shoulder patches, and its forearm measures about 44.7 millimetres. It has been recorded on Martinique, Dominica, Guadeloupe and Montserrat, and it is thought to need humid native forest to survive. As of 2018 the IUCN lists it as near threatened, close to qualifying as vulnerable because its extent of occurrence is under 15,504 square kilometres, although no continuing population decline has been seen. Like other island species it faces hurricanes and volcanic eruptions, and possibly changes in land cover and agricultural use.
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Source Sturnira angeli (Wikipedia)Distribution and habitatQuote, Distribution and habitat
The species is found in the Martinique, Dominica, Guadeloupe and Montserrat islands in the Lesser Antilles.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Sturnira angeli (Wikipedia)Distribution and habitatQuote, Distribution and habitat
The species is found in the Martinique, Dominica, Guadeloupe and Montserrat islands in the Lesser Antilles.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Sturnira angeli (Wikipedia)Distribution and habitatQuote, Distribution and habitat
The species is found in the Martinique, Dominica, Guadeloupe and Montserrat islands in the Lesser Antilles.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Sturnira angeli (Wikipedia)Distribution and habitatQuote, Distribution and habitat
The species is found in the Martinique, Dominica, Guadeloupe and Montserrat islands in the Lesser Antilles.
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1. Sturnira angeli (Wikipedia)
Biology
The species is frugivorous.
Conservation, hurricanes
The species, like other island species, faces threats from natural disasters like hurricanes and volcanic eruptions.
Conservation, volcanic eruptions
The species, like other island species, faces threats from natural disasters like hurricanes and volcanic eruptions.
Distribution and habitat
The species is found in the Martinique, Dominica, Guadeloupe and Montserrat islands in the Lesser Antilles.
In Group: Bats (Chiroptera), Lead
is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae
Child Taxon Of: Phyllostomidae, Lead
is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae
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iNaturalistTaxon record, extinct flag
"extinct": false
Taxon record, IUCN Red List status
"status_name": "near threatened"
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