Chrotopterus auritus

(W. C. H. Peters, 1856)

Woolly False Vampire Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Vespertilioniformes
Superfamily : Noctilionoidea
Family : Phyllostomidae
Subfamily : Phyllostominae
Tribe : Vampyrini
Genus : Chrotopterus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Peters, W.C.H. 1856. Ueber die systematische Stellung der Gattung Mormops Leach und über die Classification der Phyllostomata so wie über eine neue Art der Gattung Vampyrus. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1856:409-415.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11069069

Original name as described

Vampyrus auritus

Other common names

Big-eared Woolly Bat · Great Woolly Bat · Peters's Woolly False Vampire Bat

Type material

ZMB 10058 (= ZMB An. 18795/18796)

Type kind

lectotype

Type locality

"Mexico."

Biogeographic realm

Nearctic · Neotropic

Country distribution

Mexico · Guatemala · Belize · Honduras · El Salvador · Nicaragua · Costa Rica · Panama · Colombia · Venezuela · Guyana · Suriname · French Guiana · Ecuador · Peru · Bolivia · Brazil · Paraguay · Argentina

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004988

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.

Vampyrus auritus

(W. C. H. Peters, 1856)

Family

Phyllostomidae

Root name

auritus

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

ZMB 10058 (= ZMB An. 18795/18796)

Type kind

lectotype

Authority page

415

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11069069

Authority publication

Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin

Name usages

  1. Peters (1856:415, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11069069) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67628)
  2. Peters (1856:305, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29345290) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67629)
  3. True (1885:604, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7306398) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35039)
  4. Alfaro (1897:10) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37835)

Phyllostoma auritum

(A. Murray, 1866)

Family

Phyllostomidae

Root name

auritus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

346

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15580342

Authority publication

London

Name usages

Murray (1866:346, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15580342) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/39798)

Chrotopterus auritus

J. E. Gray, 1866

Family

Phyllostomidae

Root name

auritus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

113

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28627561

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

Name usages

  1. Gray (1866:113, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28627561) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37063)
  2. Allen (1900:91) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/15962)
  3. Goodwin (1946:309) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/15800)
  4. Burt & Stirton (1961:30) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5545)
  5. Corbet & Hill (1980:55) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  6. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:155) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  7. Corbet & Hill (1991:61) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
  8. Koopman (1993:177) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69007)
  9. Koopman (1994:77) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/58061)
  10. Reis & Muller (1995:33) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34685)
  11. Anderson (1997:193) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5773)
  12. Reis, Peracchi & Sekiama (1999:502) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/40441)
  13. Montenegro & Romero-Ruiz (2000:645) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34683)
  14. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
  15. O'Brien, Menninger & Nash (2006:406) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/7321)
  16. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #4811) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  17. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #4811) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  18. Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:508) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
  19. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004988) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  20. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/4811/22042605) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Chrotopterus auritus australis

O. Thomas, 1905

Family

Phyllostomidae

Root name

australis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1901.3.11.1

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/db6c77d6-94ba-442a-a38a-92d6a20db09e

Authority page

308

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19214947

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Name usages

Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)

Chrotopterus auritus guianae

O. Thomas, 1905

Family

Phyllostomidae

Root name

guianae

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1904.5.7.20

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/0e209410-122a-4083-97ee-65892cf2d036

Authority page

308

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19214947

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Name usages

Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)

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