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

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.

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

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