Micronycteris brosseti

Simmons & Voss, 1998

Brosset's Big-eared Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Vespertilioniformes
Superfamily : Noctilionoidea
Family : Phyllostomidae
Subfamily : Micronycterinae
Genus : Micronycteris
Subgenus : Leuconycteris

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Simmons, N.B. and Voss, R.S. 1998-12-02. The mammals of Paracou, French Guiana: a Neotropical lowland rainforest fauna. Part 1. Bats. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 237:1-219.

Authority publication link

https://hdl.handle.net/2246/1634

Original name as described

Micronycteris brosseti

Type material

MNHN-ZM-MO-1995-1030

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/mo-1995-1030

Type locality

"Paracou," French Guiana.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Peru · Guyana · French Guiana · Brazil?

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004953

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Micronycteris brosseti

Simmons & Voss, 1998

Family

Phyllostomidae

Root name

brosseti

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

MNHN-ZM-MO-1995-1030

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/mo-1995-1030

Authority page

62

Authority publication

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History

Name usages

  1. Lim, Engstrom, Timm, Anderson & Watson (1999:184) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/66384)
  2. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
  3. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #40028) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  4. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #40028) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  5. Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:492) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004953) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  7. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/40028/22064188) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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