Lophostoma silvicola
d'Orbigny, 1836
White-throated Round-eared Bat
Taxonomy
Subclass | : Theria |
Infraclass | : Placentalia |
Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
Order | : Chiroptera |
Suborder | : Vespertilioniformes |
Superfamily | : Noctilionoidea |
Family | : Phyllostomidae |
Subfamily | : Phyllostominae |
Tribe | : Phyllostomini |
Genus | : Lophostoma |
Species status
Authority citation
d'Orbigny, A. 1836. Pl. 6. P. pl. 6 in d'Orbigny, A. 1847. Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la République orientale de l'Uruguay, la République Argentina, la Patagonie, la République de Chili, la République de Bolivia, la République du Pérou), exécuté pendant les années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833. P. Bertrand, Paris.
Original name as described
Lophostoma silvicola
Other common names
D'Orbigny's Round-eared Bat
Type locality
"des grandes forêts qui bordent le pied oriental de la Cordillere bolivienne, au pays des sauvages Juracarès [= large forests bordering the east of the Bolivian mountain range, in the country of the Yuracare Indians]." Restricted by S. Anderson and colleagues in 1982 to Yungas, between Río Secire and Río Isibara, 1845 m, 15°45'S, 65°15'W, Beni, Bolivia.
Biogeographic realm
Neotropic
Country distribution
Honduras · Nicaragua · Costa Rica · Panama · Colombia · Venezuela · Guyana · Suriname · French Guiana · Ecuador · Peru · Bolivia · Brazil · Paraguay
Taxonomy notes
previously included L. occidentale; specific epithet has variously been spelt 'silvicola' and 'silvicolum', but 'silvicola' is the correct spelling as it the original spelling and is a noun in apposition
Taxonomy notes citation
Velazco, P. M., & Cadenillas, R. (2011). On the identity of Lophostoma silvicolum occidentalis (Davis & Carter, 1978)(Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Zootaxa, 2962, 1-20. · Wilson D.E. & Mittermeier R.A. 2019. Handbook of the mammals of the world. Vol. 9. Bats. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
IUCN Red List status
Not Evaluated
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