Hairy-legged vampire bat

Hairy-legged vampire bat
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Phyllostomidae
Genus: Diphylla
Spix, 1823
Species:
D. ecaudata
Binomial name
Diphylla ecaudata
Spix, 1823
Range map

The hairy-legged vampire bat (Diphylla ecaudata) is one of three extant species of vampire bats. It mainly feeds on the blood of wild birds, but can also feed both on domestic birds and humans.[2] This vampire bat lives mainly in tropical and subtropical forestlands of South America, Central America, and southern Mexico. It is the sole member of the genus Diphylla.

  1. ^ Sampaio, E.; Lim, B.; Peters, S. (2016). "Diphylla ecaudata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T6628A22040157. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T6628A22040157.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ Ito, Fernanda; Bernard, Enrico; Torres, Rodrigo A. (2016-11-22). "What is for Dinner? First Report of Human Blood in the Diet of the Hairy-Legged Vampire Bat Diphylla ecaudata". Acta Chiropterologica. 18 (2): 509–515. doi:10.3161/15081109ACC2016.18.2.017. ISSN 1508-1109. S2CID 88845021.

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