The flower-faced bat, Anthops ornatus, is an Old World leaf-nosed bat in the family Hipposideridae and the only species of the genus Anthops. It is known from the Solomon Islands and from the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, and it is also called the Solomons leaf-nosed bat. Records are few. The bat has been found in tropical moist forest and has also been seen flying around village houses, and the English Wikipedia article calls it rare and little known. The Mammal Diversity Database lists it as a living species, credits its description to Oldfield Thomas in 1888 from a specimen taken at Aola on Guadalcanal, and carries an IUCN status of Vulnerable.
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Living or Extinct Conservation Status Activity Pattern Connections
Child Taxon Of
Source Flower-faced bat (Wikipedia)
In Biome
Source Flower-faced bat (Wikipedia)
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Source Mammal Diversity Database: Anthops ornatus (Mammal Diversity Database)Taxon page, Country distribution, Papua New GuineaQuote, Taxon page, Country distribution, Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea · Solomon Islands
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Mammal Diversity Database: Anthops ornatus (Mammal Diversity Database)Taxon page, Country distribution, Solomon IslandsQuote, Taxon page, Country distribution, Solomon Islands
Papua New Guinea · Solomon Islands
Sources
1. EltonTraits 1.0 (Wilman et al. 2014): EltonTraits 1.0 mammal foraging attributes (MamFuncDat)
EltonTraits 1.0 (Wilman et al. 2014)MamFuncDat.txt, row Anthops ornatus (Diet-Fruit, Diet-Nect, Diet-Inv, Diet-PlantO columns)
3930 Anthops ornatus Hipposideridae 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ref_1 ABC A B "known from only one specimen, similar to Hipposideros" 1 0 0 Ref_1 ABC 8 Ref_117 1
MamFuncDat.txt, row Anthops ornatus (Activity-Nocturnal, Activity-Crepuscular, Activity-Diurnal columns)
3930 Anthops ornatus Hipposideridae 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ref_1 ABC A B "known from only one specimen, similar to Hipposideros" 1 0 0 Ref_1 ABC 8 Ref_117 1
View the Source 2. Mammal Diversity Database: Anthops ornatus (Mammal Diversity Database)
Mammal Diversity DatabaseTaxon page, IUCN Red List status
IUCN Red List status Vulnerable
Taxon page, Species status
Species status Living
View the Source Flower-faced bat (Wikipedia)
Child Taxon Of: Hipposideridae, Lead, family
is a species of bat in the family Hipposideridae
In Group: Bats (Chiroptera), Lead, everyday group
is a species of bat in the family Hipposideridae
In Biome: Tropical Rainforest, Lead, habitat
recorded from tropical moist forest
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