Glossophaga commissarisi

A. L. Gardner, 1962

Commissaris's Long-tongued Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Vespertilioniformes
Superfamily : Noctilionoidea
Family : Phyllostomidae
Subfamily : Glossophaginae
Tribe : Glossophagini
Genus : Glossophaga

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Gardner, A.L. 1962-05-11. A new bat of the genus Glossophaga from Mexico. Contributions in Science 54:1-7.

Original name as described

Glossophaga commissarisi

Other common names

Brown Long-tongued Bat

Type material

LACM:Mamm:14130

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"10 kms. S. E. Tonalá, Chiapas, Mexico."

Biogeographic realm

Nearctic · Neotropic

Country distribution

Mexico · Belize · Guatemala · El Salvador · Honduras · Nicaragua · Costa Rica · Panama

Taxonomy notes

previously included G. bakeri

Taxonomy notes citation

Velazco, P. M., Voss, R. S., Fleck, D. W., & Simmons, N. B. (2021). Mammalian Diversity and Matses Ethnomammalogy in Amazonian Peru Part 4: Bats. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 451, 1-199.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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