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Common Name: Mexican Dog Faced Bat

Scientific Name: Cynomops mexicanus

 

Kingdum: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Mammilia

Order: Chiroptera

Family: Molossidae

Genus: Cynomops
Species: C. mexicanus

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Cynomops mexicanus is well known for its color and size, but there is a lot about the Cynomops mexicanus that many people don't know about it.

Cynomops mexicanus color is a dark brown. Its wing span is about 200km long and there body is 10 millimeters long. Cynomops mexicanus can kill a lot of things with its 38 teeth.

Cynomops mexicanus can be found in Nayarit, Mexico or Costa Rica. To stay alive they live at high elevations to avoid predators.

There is about 1000 Cynomops mexicanus bats left. Cynomops mexicanus population is increasing because they keep reproducing. Owls eat Cynomops mexicanus. To avoid them they live at high elevations.

 

 

 

 

 

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