Dermanura bogotensis

(Andersen, 1906)

Bogotá Fruit-eating Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Vespertilioniformes
Superfamily : Noctilionoidea
Family : Phyllostomidae
Subfamily : Stenodermatinae
Tribe : Stenodermatini
Genus : Dermanura

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Andersen, K.C. 1906-12-01. Brief diagnoses of a new genus and ten new froms of stenodermatous bats. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7)18(108):419-423.

Original name as described

Artibeus cinereus bogotensis

Other common names

Bogota Fruit-eating Bat

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1899.11.4.35

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Curiche [Cundinamarca], near Bogota, Colombia."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Grenada · Trinidad and Tobago · Colombia · Venezuela · Guyana · Suriname · Brazil · Peru

Taxonomy notes

split from A. glaucus; moved to Dermanura from Artibeus, although some recent publications do not agree with this split, there seems to be more publications using this revised taxonomy rather than leaving all species under Artibeus

Taxonomy notes citation

Lim, B. K., Engstrom, M. D., Patton, J. C., & Bickham, J. W. (2008). Systematic review of small fruit-eating bats (Artibeus) from the Guianas, and a re-evaluation of A. glaucus bogotensis. Acta Chiropterologica, 10(2), 243-256. · Hoofer, S. R., Solari, S., Larsen, P. A., Bradley, R. D., & Baker, R. J. (2008). Phylogenetics of the fruit-eating bats (Phyllostomidae: Artibeina) inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Texas Tech University, 277, 1-15. · Wilson D.E. & Mittermeier R.A. 2019. Handbook of the mammals of the world. Vol. 9. Bats. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. · York, H. A., Rodríguez-Herrera, B., Laval, R. K., Timm, R. M., & Lindsay, K. E. (2019). Field key to the bats of Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Journal of Mammalogy, 100(6), 1726-1749. · Turcios-Casco, M. A., Ávila-Palma, H. D., LaVal, R. К., Stevens, R. D., Ordoñez-Trejo, E. J., Soler-Orellana, J. A., & Ordoñez-Mazier, D. I. (2020). A systematic revision of the bats (Chiroptera) of Honduras: an updated checklist with corroboration of historical specimens and new records. Zoosystematics and Evolution, 96, 411. ·

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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