Platyrrhinus helleri

(W. C. H. Peters, 1866)

Heller's Broad-nosed Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Vespertilioniformes
Superfamily : Noctilionoidea
Family : Phyllostomidae
Subfamily : Stenodermatinae
Tribe : Stenodermatini
Genus : Platyrrhinus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Peters, W.C.H. 1866. Hr. W. Peters machte eine Mittheilung über neue oder ungenügend bekannte Flederthiere (Vampyrops, Uroderma, Chiroderma, Ametrida, Tylostoma, Vespertilio, Vesperugo) und Nager (Tylomys, Lasiomys). Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1866:392-411.

Original name as described

Vampyrops Helleri

Type material

ZMB 3276

Type kind

lectotype

Type locality

"Mexico."

Biogeographic realm

Nearctic · Neotropic

Country distribution

Mexico · Belize · Guatemala · Honduras · El Salvador · Nicaragua · Costa Rica · Panama · Colombia · Venezuela · Ecuador

Taxonomy notes

previously included P. incarum

Taxonomy notes citation

Velazco, P. M., Gardner, A. L., & Patterson, B. D. (2010). Systematics of the Platyrrhinus helleri species complex (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), with descriptions of two new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 159(3), 785-812.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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