Diphylla ecaudata

von Spix, 1823

Hairy-legged Vampire Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Vespertilioniformes
Superfamily : Noctilionoidea
Family : Phyllostomidae
Subfamily : Desmodontinae
Tribe : Diphyllini
Genus : Diphylla

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Spix, J.B. von. 1823. Simiarum et vespertilionum brasiliensium species novae, ou histoire naturelle des espèces nouvelles de singes et de chauves-souris observées et recueillies pendant le voyage dans l'intérieur du Brésil exécuté par ordre de S. M. le roi de Bavière dans les années 1817, 1818, 1819, 1820. Franciscus Seraphicus Hübschmann, Munich, 72 pp.

Original name as described

Diphylla ecaudata

Type material

lost (number not known)

Type kind

nonexistent

Type locality

"Brasil." Restricted by A. Cabrera in 1958 to Río San Francisco, Bahia, Brazil.

Biogeographic realm

Nearctic · Neotropic

Country distribution

United States? · Mexico · Belize · Guatemala · El Salvador · Honduras · Nicaragua · Costa Rica · Panama · Colombia · Venezuela · Ecuador · Peru · Bolivia · Brazil

Subregion distribution

USA(TX?)

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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