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

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

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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