Commissaris's long-tongued bat

Species of bat

Commissaris's long-tongued bat

Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Phyllostomidae
Genus:	Glossophaga
Species:	G. commissarisi
Binomial name
*Glossophaga commissarisi* Gardner, 1962

Commissaris's long-tongued bat range

Commissaris's long-tongued bat (Glossophaga commissarisi) is a bat species from South and Central America.

Description

The bat's length ranges from 43 to 65 mm, has a wingspan of 32 to 42 mm, and weighs on average 9.3 to 9.5 grams. Colour varies from dark, light, and reddish, brown. The species presents no sexual dimorphism, and has a long tongue with bristle-like papillae.

Habitat and range

It is found from Southern Mexico to Panama, as well as in Guyana. It is found in the lowlands and up to 2,400 metres (7,900 ft). Its habitats range from tropical to sub-tropical.

References

Miller, B.; Reid, F.; Arroyo-Cabrales, J.; Cuarón, A.D.; de Grammont, P.C. (2016). "Glossophaga commissarisi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T9273A22108801. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T9273A22108801.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
^ "Commissaris's Long-tongued Bat - Glossophaga commissarisi - Details - Encyclopedia of Life". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2017-06-01.

Extant species of family Phyllostomidae

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Eutheria
Superorder: Laurasiatheria
Order: Chiroptera

Brachyphyllinae

Brachyphylla	Antillean fruit-eating bat (B. cavernarum) Cuban fruit-eating bat (B. nana)

Carolliinae

Carollia (Short-tailed leaf-nosed bats)	Benkeith's short-tailed bat (C. benkeithi) Silky short-tailed bat (C. brevicauda) Chestnut short-tailed bat (C. castanea) Manu short-tailed bat (C. manu) Mono's short-tailed bat (C. monohernandezi) Seba's short-tailed bat (C. perspicillata) Sowell's short-tailed bat (C. sowelli) Gray short-tailed bat (C. subrufa)
Rhinophylla	Hairy little fruit bat (R. alethina) Fischer's little fruit bat (R. fischerae) Dwarf little fruit bat (R. pumilio)

Desmodontinae
(vampire bats)

Desmodus	Common vampire bat (D. rotundus)
Diaemus	White-winged vampire bat (D. youngi)
Diphylla	Hairy-legged vampire bat (D. ecaudata)

Phyllonycterinae

Erophylla	Brown flower bat (E. bombifrons) Buffy flower bat (E. sezekorni)
Phyllonycteris	Jamaican flower bat (P. aphylla) Cuban flower bat (P. poeyi)

Subfamily Glossophaginae

Glossophagini

Anoura (Geoffroy's long-nosed bats)	A. aequatoris Cadena's tailless bat (A. cadenai) A. carishina Tailed tailless bat (A. caudifer) Handley's tailless bat (A. cultrata) Tube-lipped nectar bat (A. fistulata) Geoffroy's tailless bat (A. geoffroyi) Broad-toothed tailless bat (A. latidens) Luis Manuel's tailless bat (A. luismanueli) A. peruana
Choeroniscus	Godman's long-tailed bat (C. godmani) Lesser long-tongued bat (C. minor) Greater long-tailed bat (C. periosus)
Choeronycteris	Mexican long-tongued bat (C. mexicana)
Dryadonycteris	D. capixaba
Glossophaga	Commissaris's long-tongued bat (G. commissarisi) Gray long-tongued bat (G. leachii) Miller's long-tongued bat (G. longirostris) Western long-tongued bat (G. morenoi) Pallas's long-tongued bat (G. soricina)
Hylonycteris	Underwood's long-tongued bat (H. underwoodi)
Leptonycteris (Saussure's long-nosed bats)	Southern long-nosed bat (L. curasoae) Greater long-nosed bat (L. nivalis) Lesser long-nosed bat (L. yerbabuenae)
Lichonycteris	Pale brown long-nosed bat (L. degener) Dark long-tongued bat (L. obscura)
Monophyllus	Insular single leaf bat (M. plethodon) Leach's single leaf bat (M. redmani)
Musonycteris	Banana bat (M. harrisoni)
Scleronycteris	Ega long-tongued bat (S. ega)

Hsunycterini

Hsunycteris	H. cadenai H. pattoni Thomas's nectar bat (H. thomasi}

Lonchophyllini

Lionycteris	Chestnut long-tongued bat (L. spurrelli)
Lonchophylla	Bokermann's nectar bat (L. bokermanni) Chocoan long-tongued bat (L. chocoana) L. concava Dekeyser's nectar bat (L. dekeyseri) Arched nectar bat (L. fornicata) Handley's nectar bat (L. handleyi) Western nectar bat (L. hesperia) L. inexpectata Godman's nectar bat (L. mordax) Orcés's long-tongued bat (L. orcesi) L. orienticollina L. peracchii Orange nectar bat (L. robusta) Thomas's nectar bat (L. thomasi)
Platalina	Long-snouted bat (P. genovensium)
Xeronycteris	Vieira's long-tongued bat (X. vieirai)

Subfamily Phyllostominae

Micronycterini

Glyphonycteris	Behn's bat (G. behnii) Davies's big-eared bat (G. daviesi) Tricolored big-eared bat (G. sylvestris)
Lampronycteris	Yellow-throated big-eared bat (L. brachyotis)
Macrotus (big-eared bats)	California leaf-nosed bat (M. californicus) Waterhouse's leaf-nosed bat (M. waterhousii)
Micronycteris (Little Big-eared Bats)	Brosset's big-eared bat (M. brosseti) Giovanni's big-eared bat (M. giovanniae) Hairy big-eared bat (M. hirsuta) Matses's big-eared bat (M. matses) Little big-eared bat (M. megalotis) Common big-eared bat (M. microtis) White-bellied big-eared bat (M. minuta) Sanborn's big-eared bat (M. sanborni) Schmidts's big-eared bat (M. schmidtorum) Yates's big-eared bat (M. yatesi)
Neonycteris	Least big-eared bat (N. pusilla)
Trinycteris	Niceforo's big-eared bat (T. nicefori)

Vampyrini

Chrotopterus	Big-eared woolly bat (C. auritus)
Lophostoma	Pygmy round-eared bat (L. brasiliense) Carriker's round-eared bat (L. carrikeri) Davis's round-eared bat (L. evotis) Kalko's round-eared bat (L. kalkoae) Western round-eared bat (L. occidentalis) Schultz's round-eared bat (L. schulzi) White-throated round-eared bat (L. silvicolum) Yasuni round-eared bat (L. yasuni)
Tonatia (round-eared bats)	Greater round-eared bat (T. bidens) Stripe-headed round-eared bat (T. saurophila)
Trachops	Fringe-lipped bat (T. cirrhosus)
Vampyrum	Spectral bat (V. spectrum)

Lonchorhinini

Lonchorhina (sword-nosed bats)	Tomes's sword-nosed bat (L. aurita) Fernandez's sword-nosed bat (L. fernandezi) Northern sword-nosed bat (L. inusitata) Marinkelle's sword-nosed bat (L. marinkellei) Orinoco sword-nosed bat (L. orinocensis)
Macrophyllum	Long-legged bat (M. macrophyllum)
Mimon (Gray's Spear-nosed Bats)	Golden bat (M. bennettii) Cozumelan golden bat (M. cozumelae) Striped hairy-nosed bat (M. crenulatum) Koepcke's spear-nosed bat (M. koepckeae)

Phyllostomatini

Phylloderma	Pale-faced bat (P. stenops)
Phyllostomus (spear-nosed bats)	Pale spear-nosed bat (P. discolor) Lesser spear-nosed bat (P. elongatus) Greater spear-nosed bat (P. hastatus) Guianan spear-nosed bat (P. latifolius)

Subfamily Stenodermatinae

Ametrida	Little white-shouldered bat (A. centurio)
Ardops	Tree bat (A. nichollsi)
Ariteus	Jamaican fig-eating bat (A. flavescens)
Artibeus (Neotropical fruit bats)	Subgenus Artibeus: Anderson's fruit-eating bat (A. aequatorialis) Large fruit-eating bat (A. amplus) Fringed fruit-eating bat (A. fimbriatus) Fraternal fruit-eating bat (A. fraterculus) Hairy fruit-eating bat (A. hirsutus) Honduran fruit-eating bat (A. inopinatus) Jamaican fruit-eating bat (A. jamaicensis) Great fruit-eating bat (A. lituratus) Dark fruit-eating bat (A. obscurus) Flat-faced fruit-eating bat (A. planirostris) Schwartz's fruit-eating bat (A. schwartzi) Subgenus Koopmania: Brown fruit-eating bat (A. concolor)
Centurio	Wrinkle-faced bat (C. senex)
Chiroderma (big-eyed bats)	Brazilian big-eyed bat (C. doriae) Guadeloupe big-eyed bat (C. improvisum) Salvin's big-eyed bat (C. salvini) Little big-eyed bat (C. trinitatum) Hairy big-eyed bat (C. villosum) C. vizottoi
Dermanura	Andersen's fruit-eating bat (D. anderseni) Aztec fruit-eating bat (D. aztecus) Bogotá fruit-eating bat (D. bogotensis) Gervais's fruit-eating bat (D. cinerea) Silver fruit-eating bat (D. glauca) Gnome fruit-eating bat (D. gnoma) Pygmy fruit-eating bat (D. phaeotis) D. rava Rosenberg's fruit-eating bat (D. rosenbergi) Toltec fruit-eating bat (D. tolteca) Thomas's fruit-eating bat (D. watsoni)
Ectophylla	Honduran white bat (E. alba)
Enchisthenes	Velvety fruit-eating bat (E. hartii)
Mesophylla	MacConnell's bat (M. macconnelli)
Phyllops (Falcate-winged bats)	Cuban fig-eating bat (P. falcatus)
Platyrrhinus	P. albericoi Slender broad-nosed bat (P. angustirostris) P. aquilus Eldorado broad-nosed bat (P. aurarius) Short-headed broad-nosed bat (P. brachycephalus) Choco broad-nosed bat (P. chocoensis) Thomas's broad-nosed bat (P. dorsalis) P. fusciventris P. guianensis Heller's broad-nosed bat (P. helleri) P. incarum Buffy broad-nosed bat (P. infuscus) P. ismaeli White-lined broad-nosed bat (P. lineatus) P. masu Matapalo broad-nosed bat (P. matapalensis) P. nigellus P. nitelinea Recife broad-nosed bat (P. recifinus) Shadowy broad-nosed bat (P. umbratus) Greater broad-nosed bat (P. vittatus)
Pygoderma	Ipanema bat (P. bilabiatum)
Sphaeronycteris	Visored bat (S. toxophyllum)
Stenoderma	Red fruit bat (S. rufum)
Sturnira (yellow-shouldered bats)	S. angeli Aratathomas's yellow-shouldered bat (S. aratathomasi) S. bakeri Bidentate yellow-shouldered bat (S. bidens) Bogotá yellow-shouldered bat (S. bogotensis) S. burtonlimi Hairy yellow-shouldered bat (S. erythromos) S. hondurensis Choco yellow-shouldered bat (S. koopmanhilli) Little yellow-shouldered bat (S. lilium) Highland yellow-shouldered bat (S. ludovici) Louis's yellow-shouldered bat (S. luisi) Greater yellow-shouldered bat (S. magna) Mistratoan yellow-shouldered bat (S. mistratensis) Talamancan yellow-shouldered bat (S. mordax) Lesser yellow-shouldered bat (S. nana) Tschudi's yellow-shouldered bat (S. oporaphilum) S. parvidens S. paulsoni S. perla Soriano's yellow-shouldered bat (S. sorianoi) Thomas's yellow-shouldered bat (S. thomasi) Tilda's yellow-shouldered bat (S. tildae)
Uroderma (Tent-building bats)	U. bakeri Tent-making bat (U. bilobatum) U. convexum U. davisi Brown tent-making bat (U. magnirostrum)
Vampyressa (yellow-eared bats)	Kalko's yellow-eared bat (V. elisabethae) Melissa's yellow-eared bat (V. melissa) Southern little yellow-eared bat (V. pusilla) Northern little yellow-eared bat (V. thyone) Villa's yellow-eared bat (V. villai)
Vampyriscus	Bidentate yellow-eared bat (V. bidens) Brock's yellow-eared bat (V. brocki) Striped yellow-eared bat (V. nymphaea)
Vampyrodes	Great stripe-faced bat (V. caraccioli)

Taxon identifiers
Glossophaga commissarisi	Wikidata: Q137600 Wikispecies: Glossophaga commissarisi BOLD: 34983 CoL: 3GDTR EoL: 327427 GBIF: 2433193 iNaturalist: 41093 IRMNG: 10974263 ITIS: 631811 IUCN: 9273 MDD: 1004909 MSW: 13801144 NCBI: 177159 Open Tree of Life: 801225

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