Micronycteris schmidtorum

Sanborn, 1935

Schmidts' 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 : Schizonycteris

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Sanborn, C.C. 1935-05-15. New mammals from Guatemala and Honduras. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series 20(11):81-85.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2771824

Original name as described

Micronycteris schmidtorum

Type material

FMNH:Mamm:41559

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/fmnh/mammals?id=2b224949-0bc1-413a-a020-54c92bb92d3f

Type locality

"Bobos, Izabal, Guatemala."

Biogeographic realm

Nearctic · Neotropic

Country distribution

Mexico · Guatemala · Belize · Honduras · El Salvador · Nicaragua · Costa Rica · Panama · Colombia · Venezuela · French Guiana · Peru · Brazil · Bolivia

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004962

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 schmidtorum

Sanborn, 1935

Family

Phyllostomidae

Root name

schmidtorum

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

FMNH:Mamm:41559

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/fmnh/mammals?id=2b224949-0bc1-413a-a020-54c92bb92d3f

Authority page

81

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2771824

Authority publication

Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series

Name usages

  1. Corbet & Hill (1980:53) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  2. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:160) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  3. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
  4. O'Brien, Menninger & Nash (2006:403) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/7321)
  5. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #13383) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #13383) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  7. Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:491) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
  8. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004962) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  9. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/13383/22124156) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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