Predation by giant centipedes, Scolopendra gigantea, on three species of bats in a Venezuelan cave

Caribbean Journal of Science

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 340-346

  Molinari, Jesús ^a   Gutiérrez, Eliécer E ^a,b   De Ascenção, Antonio A ^a   Nassar, Jafet M ^b   Arends, Alexis ^c   Márquez, Robert J ^a  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Venezuela)

^b INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

^c Universidad Nacional Experimental Francisco de Miranda   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Leptonycteris; Mormoops; Paraguan Peninsula; Predation; Pteronotus; Scolopendra

Indexed keywords

PREDATION;

SOUTH AMERICA; VENEZUELA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CHILOPODA; CHIROPTERA; LEPTONYCTERIS; LEPTONYCTERIS CURASOAE; MAMMALIA; MORMOOPS; MORMOOPS MEGALOPHYLLA; PTERONOTUS; PTERONOTUS DAVYI; SCOLOPENDRA; SCOLOPENDRIDAE; SCOLOPENDROMORPHA;

EID: 24644488869     PISSN: 00086452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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