Chiroderma scopaeum
Handley, 1966
Mexican 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. 1966-06-20. Descriptions of new bats (Chiroderma and Artibeus) from Mexico. Anales del Instituto de Biología. Serie Zoología 36:297-301.
Original name as described
Chiroderma salvini scopaeum
Type material
USNM:MAMM:338711
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/39e5b31ab-1052-435d-94ea-692d09619d1dType locality
Pueblo Juárez, Colima, México.
Biogeographic realm
Nearctic
Country distribution
Mexico
Taxonomy notes
split from C. salvini
Taxonomy notes citation
Garbino, G. S. T., Lim, B. K., & Tavares, V. da C. (2020). Systematics of big-eyed bats, genus Chiroderma (Chiroptera: Phyllstomidae). Zootaxa, 4846(1), 1-93.
IUCN Red List status
Not Evaluated
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