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
Monatsb. preuss. Akad. Wiss., Berlin, p. 415. .]
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11069069Original 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
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