Platyrrhinus lineatus

(É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1810)

White-lined 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

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, É. 1810. Sur les phyllostomes et les mégadermes, deux genres de la famille des chauve-souris. Annales du Muséum d'histoire naturelle 15:157-198.

Original name as described

Phyllostoma lineatum

Other common names

White-lined Bat

Type material

MNHN-ZM-MO-1997-1803 (= MNHN ? 953)

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Paraguay." Restricted by A. Cabrera in 1958 to Asunción, central Paraguay.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Suriname · French Guiana · Brazil · Bolivia · Paraguay · Uruguay · Argentina

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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