Choeronycteris mexicana


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Noun1.Choeronycteris mexicana - small-eared Mexican bat with a long slender nose
leafnose bat, leaf-nosed bat - bat having a leaflike flap at the end of the nose; especially of the families Phyllostomatidae and Rhinolophidae and Hipposideridae
Choeronycteris, genus Choeronycteris - a genus of Phyllostomatidae
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Choeronycteris mexicana and Leopardus wiedii are the only species designated as being at some level of risk of extinction according to the Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM-059-ECOL-2010 (SEMARNAT, 2010).
En relacion a las especies catalogadas en alguna categoria de riesgo de extincion en la NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010 tres especies estan incluidas: Cratogeomys fumosus, Leptonycteris yerbabuenae y Choeronycteris mexicana (Amenazadas).
The Mexican long-tongued bat, Choeronycteris mexicana, (Family Phyllostomidae) is primarily found southward from northern Mexico to El Salvador and Honduras (Hall 1981).
The Mexican long-tongued bat (Choeronycteris mexicana), family Phyllostomidae, occurs in the southwestern United States, and throughout most of Mexico, to El Salvador and Honduras (Arroyo-Cabrales et al., 1982).