Michael Rothman painting of Phyllostomus hastatus carrying away a seed of the sapucaia. From Wordnik.com. [Brazil nut family (Lecythidaceae) in the New World] Reference
Phyllostomus hastatus, a frugivore, where female roost members actively recruit each other to fruiting trees with the help of individually recognizable screech calls. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
The few species that are mainly restricted to this ecoregion include the endemic black uakari monkeys (Cacajao melanocephalus) and bearded sakis (Chiropotes satanas), opossums (Marmosops impavidus), bats (Micronycteris pusilla, Phyllostomus latifolius, Platyrrhinus aurarius), and several rodents (Neusticomys venezuelae, Rhipidomys macconnelli, Cavia guianae, and Proechimys simonsi). From Wordnik.com. [Negro-Branco moist forests] Reference
Some mammals are restricted to this region of Amazonia; these include an endemic opossum (Marmosa tyleriana) and white-eared opossum (Didelphis albiventris), long-tailed weasels, pale-throated sloths and a great variety of bats (Diclidurus isabellus, Pteronotus personatus, Phyllostomus latifolius, Anoura geoffroyi, Glossophaga longirostris), an endemic rodent (Podoxymys roraimae), three climbing rats in the genus Rhipidomys, and two guinea pigs (Cavia). From Wordnik.com. [Tepuis] Reference
Phyllostomus hastatus) (Fig. 4) remove the seeds with the attached aril usually on the same night that the fruits open. From Wordnik.com. [Brazil nut family (Lecythidaceae) in the New World] Reference
Various mammals that occur here and are not found elsewhere in Amazonia include the marsh deer, maned wolf, central South American seasonal forest primates (Alouatta caraya, Aotus azarai, Callicebus donacophilus, C. modestus, C. olallae, and Callithrix melanura), rodents (Akodon dayi, Kunsia tomentosus, and Oxymycterus inca), four species of opossums (Monodelphis kunsi, Marmosops dorothea, Lutreolina crassicaudata, and Gracilinanus agilis), various bats (Vampyrum spectrum, Phyllostomus hastatus, and Micronycteris behnii, and several species of Platyrrhinus, Molossops temminckii). From Wordnik.com. [Beni savanna] Reference
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