Chiroderma gorgasi
Handley, 1960
Handley's Big-eyed Bat
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
| Order | : Chiroptera |
| Suborder | : Vespertilioniformes |
| Superfamily | : Noctilionoidea |
| Family | : Phyllostomidae |
| Subfamily | : Stenodermatinae |
| Tribe | : Stenodermatini |
| Genus | : Chiroderma |
Species status
Living
Found in the wild
Authority citation
Handley, C.O., Jr. 1960-10-06. Descriptions of new bats from Panama. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 112:459-479.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7717360Original name as described
Chiroderma gorgasi
Type material
USNM:MAMM:309903
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/36c68ae2e-df1f-41de-8ee7-01e7ab11ea0cType locality
Tacarcuna Village (08° 05' N, 77° 17' W), 3200 ft, Río Pucro, Darién, Panama.
Biogeographic realm
Neotropic
Country distribution
Costa Rica · Panama · Colombia · Ecuador · Honduras
Taxonomy notes
split from C. trinitatum
Taxonomy notes citation
Lim, B. K., Loureiro, L. O., & Garbino, G. S. (2020). Cryptic diversity and range extension in the big-eyed bat genus Chiroderma (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae). ZooKeys, 918, 41-63.
IUCN Red List status
Not Evaluated
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