Lonchophylla inexpectata

Moratelli & Dias, 2015

Pale-bellied Nectar Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Vespertilioniformes
Superfamily : Noctilionoidea
Family : Phyllostomidae
Subfamily : Lonchophyllinae
Tribe : Lonchophyllini
Genus : Lonchophylla

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Moratelli, R. and Dias, D. 2015-07-22. A new species of nectar-feeding bat, genus Lonchophylla, from the Caatinga of Brazil (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae). ZooKeys 514:73-91.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.514.10013

Original name as described

Lonchophylla inexpectata

Other common names

Pernambuco Nectar Bat · Unexpected Nectar Bat

Type material

USNM:MAMM:238008

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Barra (12°42'S, 41°33'W), Bahia, Brazil."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Brazil

Taxonomy notes

recently described

Taxonomy notes citation

Moratelli, R., & Dias, D. (2015). A new species of nectar-feeding bat, genus Lonchophylla, from the Caatinga of Brazil (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae). ZooKeys, (514), 73.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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