Platalina genovensium

O. Thomas, 1928

Long-snouted Bat

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Thomas, O. 1928-01-01. A new genus and species of glossophagine bat, with a subdivision of the genus _Chœronycteris_. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)1(1):120-123.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1080/00222932808672753

Original name as described

Platalina genovensium

Other common names

Peruvian Long-tongued Bat

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1927.11.19.38

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"neighbourhood of Lima," Peru.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Peru · Chile

IUCN Red List status

Near Threatened

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