Artibeus schwartzi

J. K. Jones, 1978

Schwartz's 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

Jones, J.K., Jr. 1978. A new bat of the genus Artibeus from the Lesser Antillean island of St. Vincent. Occasional Papers, Museum of Texas Tech University 51:1-6.

Original name as described

Artibeus jamaicensis schwartzi

Type material

KU:M:110176

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Mesopotamia, 350 ft. [= 107 m], Charlotte Parish, St. Vincent (Lesser Antilles)."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Barbados? · Saint Kitts and Nevis · Montserrat · Saint Lucia · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Grenada

Taxonomy notes

split from A. jamaicensis

Taxonomy notes citation

Larsen, P. A., Hoofer, S. R., Bozeman, M. C., Pedersen, S. C., Genoways, H. H., Phillips, C. J., ... & Baker, R. J. (2007). Phylogenetics and phylogeography of the Artibeus jamaicensis complex based on cytochrome-b DNA sequences. Journal of Mammalogy, 88(3), 712-727.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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