The Mato Grosso dog-faced bat, Neoplatymops mattogrossensis, is a small free-tailed bat of South America and the only species in the genus Neoplatymops. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Guyana and Venezuela. C. O. C. Vieira described it in 1942 from a holotype collected along the Juruena River north of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. It has a forearm of 29 to 30 millimetres and weighs 7 to 7.5 grams, with a flattened skull, brown back fur and white or grey belly fur, and males are larger than females. It eats insects and possibly lives in harems, with colonies in Venezuela of one male and two to four females. Females give birth once a year at the start of the wet season. The IUCN evaluated it as least concern in 2008.
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Living or Extinct Conservation Status Connections
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Source GBIF: GBIF Backbone species match: Neoplatymops mattogrossensis
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Source Mato Grosso dog-faced bat (Wikipedia)Range and habitat, where it livesQuote, Range and habitat, where it lives
including Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, and Venezuela
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Mato Grosso dog-faced bat (Wikipedia)Range and habitat, where it livesQuote, Range and habitat, where it lives
including Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, and Venezuela
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Mato Grosso dog-faced bat (Wikipedia)Range and habitat, where it livesQuote, Range and habitat, where it lives
including Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, and Venezuela
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Mato Grosso dog-faced bat (Wikipedia)Range and habitat, where it livesQuote, Range and habitat, where it lives
including Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, and Venezuela
Sources
1. Mato Grosso dog-faced bat (Wikipedia)
Conservation
it is evaluated as a least-concern species by the IUCN
Biology and ecology
It is insectivorous.
Range and habitat
It is found in several countries in South America
Range and habitat, where it lives
including Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, and Venezuela
In Group: Bats (Chiroptera), Lead
is a bat species found in South America
View the SourceGBIF: GBIF Backbone species match: Neoplatymops mattogrossensis
GBIFChild Taxon Of: Molossidae, Species match, familyQuote, Child Taxon Of: Molossidae, Species match, family
"family": "Molossidae"
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