Artibeus planirostris
(von Spix, 1823)
Flat-faced 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 | : Artibeus |
Species status
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/57826995Original 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
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