MammalBase - Accepted taxon: Glossophaga soricina

Accepted taxon: Glossophaga soricina
Taxon:	Glossophaga soricina
Rank:	Species
Higher Classification:	CHIROPTERA \| Phyllostomidae \| Glossophaginae \| Glossophagini \| Glossophaga
Reference:	Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), JHU Press, 2005.

Fig.1 - Ternary plot of the proximate analysis for the Glossophaga soricina diet.
CF (Crude Fibre) 4, ASH (Ash contents) 4, NFE (Nitrogen-Free-Extract) 70, CP (Crude Protein) 17, EE (Ether Extract) 5. See details for the calculations in Lintulaakso, K., Tatti, N. and Žliobaitė, I., 2022. Quantifying mammalian diets. Mammalian Biology, pp.1-15. [DOI]

Table 1. List of Diet Items for Glossophaga soricina.
TSN Complete name	Part	Ratio ^a.	Reference(s)
Magnoliopsida	NECTAR/JUICE	46.43	Damuth, J…
Magnoliopsida	POLLEN	16.07	Grzimek,B…
Insecta	WHOLE	14.90	Damuth, J…
Magnoliopsida	FRUIT	11.35	Grzimek,B…
Cecropia pachystachya	FRUIT	6.25	Stevens, …
Diptera	WHOLE	2.08	Pellón, J…
Ficus	FRUIT	1.25	Stevens, …
Solanaceae	FRUIT	1.04	Pellón, J…
Piper	FRUIT	0.63	Stevens, …

^a. Standardized values. See details for the calculations in Lintulaakso, K., Tatti, N. and Žliobaitė, I., 2022. Quantifying mammalian diets. Mammalian Biology, pp.1-15. [DOI]

Table 2. List of Standard Traits for Glossophaga soricina.
Trait	Selected Value	All Value(s)	Reference(s)
Dietary category: Eisenberg 1981	Nectarivore	Nectarivore	Arriaga-F…
Dietary category: Miljutin 2009	Frugivore	Animalivore,Frugivore	Arriaga-F…
Locomotion: Eisenberg 1981	Volant	Volant	Paglia,A.…
Temporal habits	nocturnal	nocturnal	Rodrigo A…

Table 3. List of Standard Measurements for Glossophaga soricina.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
Body Mass (BM)	La Peregrina Canyon, Tamaulipas, Mexico	g	3	3	-	-	-	11.6	-	-	Arriaga-F…
Body Mass (BM)	Central America	g	-	-	-	-	-	10.5	-	-	Robert M.…
Body Mass (BM)	Brazil	g	-	-	-	-	-	9	-	-	Paglia,A.…

Table 4. List of other Measurements ^b. for Glossophaga soricina.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
Skull length	Amazonian Peru	mm	-	-	-	-	-	20	-	-	Molinari,…
Skull length	French Guiana	mm	-	-	-	-	-	20	-	-	Molinari,…
Skull length	Paraguay	mm	-	-	-	-	-	21	-	-	Molinari,…
Skull length	Venezuela	mm	-	-	-	-	-	20	-	-	Molinari,…

^b. other Measurements. Source Measurements which are not listed on or mapped with the Standard Traits..

Table 5. List of Data Sources for Glossophaga soricina.
Taxon	Reference	Match	Status
Glossophaga soricina	Cakenberghe,V. V., 2002, Evolutionary relationships between cranial shape and diet in bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera), Topics in functional and ecological vertebrate morphology	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Glossophaga soricina	McNab,B. K., 1986, The influence of food habits on the energetics of eutherian mammals, Ecological Monographs	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Glossophaga soricina	Brigham,R. M., 1991, Prey detection, dietary niche breadth, and body size in bats: why are aerial insectivorous bats so small?, The American Naturalist	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Glossophaga soricina	Carstens,B. C., 2002, A Phylogeny of the Neotropical nectar-feeding bats (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) based on morphological and molecular data, Journal of Mammalian Evolution	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Glossophaga soricina	Kalko,E. K. V., 2001, Neotropical bats in the canopy: diversity, community structure, and implications for conservation, Plant Ecology	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Glossophaga soricina	Cruz-Neto,A. P., 2001, Diet, phylogeny, and basal metabolic rate in phyllostomid bats, Zoology	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Glossophaga soricina	Paglia,A. P., 2012, Lista Anotada dos MamÃƒÂferos do Brasil 2Ã‚Âª EdiÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o Annotated Checklist of Brazilian Mammals,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Glossophaga soricina	MedellÃƒÂn,R. A., 1994, Mammal diversity and conservation in the Selva Lacandona, Chiapas, Mexico, Conservation Biology	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Glossophaga soricina	Damuth, J. 2010. ABSOLUT 6 a mammalian database compiled by the national center for ecological analysis and synthesis (NCEAS ) workshop on mammalian communities.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Glossophaga soricina	SÃƒÂnchezÃ¢â‚¬ÂCordero,V. ÃƒÂ., 2008, Elevation gradients of diversity for rodents and bats in Oaxaca, Mexico, Global Ecology and Biogeography	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Glossophaga soricina	Freeman,P. W., 1998, Form, function, and evolution in skulls and teeth of bats,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Glossophaga soricina	Grzimek,B., 2003, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Mammals I-V,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Glossophaga soricina	Stevens, R.D. and Amarilla-Stevens, H.N., 2021. Dietary patterns of phyllostomid bats in interior Atlantic Forest of eastern Paraguay. Journal of Mammalogy.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Glossophaga soricina	Arriaga-Flores, J.C., Castro-Arellano, I., Moreno-Valdez, A. and Correa-Sandoval, A., 2012. Temporal niche overlap of a riparian forest bat assemblage in subtropical Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Mastozoología (Nueva Época), 2(1), pp.3-17.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Glossophaga soricina	Pellón, J.J., Medina-Espinoza, E.F., Lim, B.K., Cornejo, F. and Medellín, R.A., 2022. Eat what you can, when you can: relatively high arthropod consumption by frugivorous bats in Amazonian Peru. Mammalian Biology, pp.1-8.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Glossophaga soricina	Gaudioso, P.J., Pérez, M.J., Gamboa Alurralde, S., Toledo, N. and Díaz, M.M., 2023. Exploration of the morphology and functional implications of the forelimb in bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) from the Neotropical region. Zoomorphology, pp.1-17.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Glossophaga soricina	Molinari, J., A global assessment of the 'island rule' in bats based on functionally distinct measures of body size. Journal of Biogeography.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Glossophaga soricina	Herberstein, M.E., McLean, D.J., Lowe, E., Wolff, J.O., Khan, M.K., Smith, K., Allen, A.P., Bulbert, M., Buzatto, B.A., Eldridge, M.D. and Falster, D., 2022. AnimalTraits-a curated animal trait database for body mass, metabolic rate and brain size. Scientific Data, 9(1), p.265.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted

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