Lonchophylla orcesi Albuja &amp; Gardner 2005
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Mittermeier, Russell A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Phyllostomidae
Lonchophylla
Lonchophylla orcesi

description: 92. Orces’s Long-tongued Bat <i>Lonchophylla orcesi</i> <b>French:</b> Lonchophylle d'Orces / <b>German:</b> Orces-Nektarfledermaus / <b>Spanish:</b> Loncéfilo de Orces <b>Other common names:</b> Orces’s Nectar Bat <b>Taxonomy.</b> Lonchophylla orcesi Albuja &amp; Gardner, 2005, “Los Pambiles 00°32’N, 78°38°W, Rio Piedras, Cordillera de Toisan, Esmeraldas Province, Ecuador.” This species is monotypic. <b>Distribution.</b> Known only from type locality in Esmeraldas Province, NW Ecuador. <b>Descriptive notes.</b> Head-body 61 mm,tail 11 mm, ear 17 mm, hindfoot 14-8 mm, forearm 47 mm; weight 22 g. Orces’s Long-tongued Bat is one of the largest species of Lonchophylla. Fur is soft and medium long. Dorsal fur is pale brown and darker on head, but neck and shoulders are paler than back. Hairs are bicolored, yellowish gray-brown below and paler than on back, with shorter hairs having gray bases. Snoutis relatively long and slender; noseleafis short and pointed, and its base is broad, without free edges; and ears are short and rounded. Wings are attached to ankles; basal two-thirds of forearm is furred; caudal membrane is long (18-3 mm) and without hairs on edge;tail is short, reaching middle of membrane; and calcar shorter than foot. I' are much longer than I?, which are bordered by spaces. <b>Habitat.</b> Primary humid forests. The only specimen of Orces’s Long-tongued Bat was found on a small, flat, densely forested river terrace. Collection site is part of the Subtropical Zoogeographic Region in Very Humid Pre-montane Forest. This forest has at least two relatively undifferentiated strata. Canopy of upper stratum is open and discontinuous; lower stratum is denser and nearly continuous. Trees have relatively slender trunks and heights of 15-25 m. Young palms and saplings of other tree species are plentiful in understory, which includes tree ferns and mosses. Epiphytes including large leaved Arecaceae, orchids, and bromeliads are conspicuous. Mean annual temperature is ¢.20°C, humidity is high, and annual precipitation can exceed 4000 mm. <b>Food and Feeding.</b> No information. <b>Breeding.</b> No information. <b>Activity patterns.</b> Orces’s LLong-tongued Bats are nocturnal. <b>Movements, Home range and Social organization.</b> No information. <b>Status and Conservation.</b> Classified as Data Deficient on The IUCNRed List. Orces’s Longtongued Batis listed as critically endangered in Ecuador. It is a rare and poorly known. Only known locality is the Cotacachi-Cayapas Ecological Reserve. Deforestation and consequent problems of habitat loss and fragmentation are probably main threats. <b>Bibliography.</b> Albuja &amp; Gardner (2005), Griffiths &amp; Gardner (2008b), Tirira (2011, 2017).
description: Published as part of <i>Don E. Wilson &amp; Russell A. Mittermeier, 2019, Phyllostomidae, pp. 444-583 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions</i> on page 530, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6458594