Stenoderma rufum

Goldfuss, 1820

Red Fruit Bat

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Goldfuss, G.A. 1820. Handbuch der Zoologie. Zweite Abtheilung. Johann Leonhard Schrag, Nuremberg, 510 pp.

Original name as described

Stenoderma rufum

Other common names

Red Fig-eating Bat

Type material

MNHN-ZM-MO-1997-1818 (= MNHN ? 934)

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

type locality not given.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Puerto Rico · United States Virgin Islands

IUCN Red List status

Near Threatened

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