Artibeus planirostris

(von Spix, 1823)

Flat-faced Fruit-eating Bat

Artibeus planirostris fallax. Species includes forms formerly as Artibeus jamaicensis planirostris, fallax, grenadensis, hercules, and trinitatis. Also as Flat-headed Fruit-eating Bat|Spix's Artibeus.
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Location:Brazil, Mato Grosso state, Araras LodgeDate taken:Aug 14, 2007

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 6111

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Spix, J.B. von. 1823. Simiarum et vespertilionum brasiliensium species novae, ou histoire naturelle des espèces nouvelles de singes et de chauves-souris observées et recueillies pendant le voyage dans l'intérieur du Brésil exécuté par ordre de S. M. le roi de Bavière dans les années 1817, 1818, 1819, 1820. Franciscus Seraphicus Hübschmann, Munich, 72 pp.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57826995

Original name as described

Phyllostoma planirostre

Other common names

Flat-headed Fruit-eating Bat · Spix's Artibeus

Type material

ZSM 66

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"suburbiis Bahiae." Identified by C. T. de Carvalho in 1965 as Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Grenada · Trinidad and Tobago · Colombia · Venezuela · Guyana · Suriname · Brazil · Ecuador · Peru · Bolivia · Paraguay · Argentina

Taxonomy notes

split from A. jamaicensis

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005015

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.

Total: 20 names and synonyms.

Phyllostoma planirostre

(von Spix, 1823)

Family

Phyllostomidae

Root name

planirostris

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

ZSM 66

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

66

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57826995

Authority publication

Munich

Name usages

  1. Spix (1823:66, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57826995) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/38733)
  2. Schinz (1825:294, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51523711) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/66129)
  3. Fischer (1829:130) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59856)

Arctibeus lobatus

J. E. Gray, 1838

Family

Phyllostomidae

Root name

lobatus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

487

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40026390

Authority publication

Magazine of Zoology and Botany

Name usages

Gray (1838:487, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40026390) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34750)

Arctibeus planirostris

J. E. Gray, 1838

Family

Phyllostomidae

Root name

planirostris

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

487

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40026390

Authority publication

Magazine of Zoology and Botany

Name usages

Gray (1838:487, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40026390) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34750)

Artibeus fallax

W. C. H. Peters, 1865

Family

Phyllostomidae

Root name

fallax

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

RMNH.MAM.13083

Type kind

lectotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/RMNH.MAM.13083.a https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/RMNH.MAM.13083.b

Authority page

355

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35168798

Authority publication

Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin

Artibeus planirostris

W. H. Flower & Lydekker, 1891

Family

Phyllostomidae

Root name

planirostris

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

676

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46965891

Authority publication

London

Name usages

  1. Flower & Lydekker (1891:676, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46965891) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34115)
  2. Seabra (1900:87) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68462)
  3. Trouessart (1904:116, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53422945) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59289)
  4. Andersen (1906:420, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19366681) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/16874)
  5. Allen (1911:236, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2815320) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67867)
  6. Allen (1911:269) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/16009)
  7. Osgood (1914:178, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2646775) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/20586)
  8. Goldman (1920:207, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30263319) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9520)
  9. Sanborn (1932:178, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52371677) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34803)
  10. Goodwin (1946:323) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/15800)
  11. Jones (1951:224) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/14717)
  12. Corbet & Hill (1980:60) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  13. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:152) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  14. Owen (1987:63, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/55010682) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/17399)
  15. Corbet & Hill (1991:66) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
  16. Sánchez-Palomino, Rivas Pava & Cadena (1993:306) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34667)
  17. Koopman (1993:189) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69007)
  18. Koopman (1994:91) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/58061)
  19. Montenegro & Romero-Ruiz (2000:645) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34683)
  20. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #2139) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  21. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #2139) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  22. Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:576) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
  23. Velazco, Voss, Fleck & Simmons (2021:94, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/61530227) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/56561)
  24. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005015) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  25. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/2139/21997607) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Artibeus hercules

Rehn, 1902

Family

Phyllostomidae

Root name

hercules

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

ANSP 5785

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

638

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24686576

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

Name usages

Trouessart (1904:116, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53422945) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59289)

Artibeus planirostris grenadensis

Andersen, 1906

Family

Phyllostomidae

Root name

grenadensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1896.11.8.6

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/310a0c3d-ce52-4ec6-872a-fa9d366e05bf

Authority page

420

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19366681

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Name usages

  1. Andersen (1906:420, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19366681) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/16874)
  2. Allen (1911:236, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2815320) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67867)
  3. Jones (1951:224) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/14717)
  4. Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:576) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)

Artibeus planirostris planirostris

Andersen, 1906

Family

Phyllostomidae

Root name

planirostris

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

420

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19366681

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Name usages

  1. Andersen (1906:420, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19366681) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/16874)
  2. Goldman (1920:207, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30263319) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9520)
  3. Sanborn (1932:178, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52371677) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34803)
  4. Goodwin (1946:323) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/15800)
  5. Koopman (1994:91) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/58061)
  6. Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:576) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)

Artibeus planirostris trinitatis

Andersen, 1906

Family

Phyllostomidae

Root name

trinitatis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1897.6.7.1

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/6bb354f7-7b03-4507-b08a-267b0e9ccf1f

Authority page

420

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19366681

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Name usages

  1. Andersen (1906:420, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19366681) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/16874)
  2. Jones (1951:224) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/14717)
  3. Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:576) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)

Uroderma validum

(D. G. Elliot, 1907)

Family

Phyllostomidae

Root name

validus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

FMNH:Mamm:14881

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/fmnh/mammals?id=a3a92349-0b01-4130-a885-cdd880e2c6a2

Authority page

537

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36209117

Authority publication

Field Columbian Museum, Zoölogical Series

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