Pteronotus alitonus

A. C. Pavan, Bobrowiec, & Percequillo, 2018

Amazonian Common Mustached Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Vespertilioniformes
Superfamily : Noctilionoidea
Family : Mormoopidae
Genus : Pteronotus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Pavan, A.C., Bobrowiec, P.E.D. and Percequillo, A.R. 2018-05-19. Geographic variation in a South American clade of mormoopid bats, Pteronotus (Phyllodia), with description of a new species. Journal of Mammalogy 99(3):624-645.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyy048

Original name as described

Pteronotus alitonus

Other common names

Amazonian Mustached Bat

Type material

INPA 6942

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP) area, 80 km north of Manaus, Brazil (2°20'S, 60°6'W, elevation of 30–125 m)."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Guyana · Suriname · French Guiana · Brazil

Taxonomy notes

recently described

Taxonomy notes citation

Pavan, A. C., Bobrowiec, P. E., & Percequillo, A. R. (2018). Geographic variation in a South American clade of mormoopid bats, Pteronotus (Phyllodia), with description of a new species. Journal of Mammalogy, 99(3), 624-645.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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