Chiroderma villosum

W. C. H. Peters, 1861

Hairy 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
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Peters, W.C.H. 1861. Hr. W. Peters legte eine neue Gattung von Flederthieren, _Chiroderma villosum_, aus Brasilien vor. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1860:747-754.

Original name as described

Chiroderma villosum

Type material

ZMB 408

Type kind

lectotype

Type locality

"Brasilia."

Biogeographic realm

Nearctic · Neotropic

Country distribution

Mexico · Belize · Guatemala · El Salvador · Honduras · Nicaragua · Costa Rica · Panama · Colombia · Venezuela · Trinidad and Tobago · Guyana · Suriname · French Guiana · Ecuador · Peru · Brazil · Bolivia

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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