Carollia castanea

H. Allen, 1890

Chestnut Short-tailed Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Vespertilioniformes
Superfamily : Noctilionoidea
Family : Phyllostomidae
Subfamily : Carolliinae
Genus : Carollia

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Allen, H. 1890-02-25. Description of a new species of Carollia and remarks on _Carollia brevicauda_. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 28:19-26.

Original name as described

Carollia castanea

Type material

USNM:MAMM:12914 (= USNM:MAMM:A36834)

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Costa Rica." Restricted by R. H. Pine in 1972 to Angostura, San José, Costa Rica.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Honduras · Nicaragua · Costa Rica · Panama · Colombia · Venezuela · Guyana · Ecuador · Peru

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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