Thomas's nectar bat, Hsunycteris thomasi, is a bat species found in South and Central America. It feeds at flowers and is recorded as a pollinator of the vine Marcgravia, which links it to the plants whose blossoms it visits. The GBIF taxonomic backbone lists the accepted name with J. A. Allen as the authority in 1904, and places the species in the leaf-nosed bat family Phyllostomidae of the order Chiroptera. The short sources used for this entry give no figures for body size, lifespan or population, and they name no countries more precisely than South and Central America, so its detailed range and conservation status remain to be researched.
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Thomas's nectar bat (Wikipedia)
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is a bat species from South and Central America
GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy match for Hsunycteris thomasi
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