Uroderma bilobatum

W. C. H. Peters, 1866

Common Tent-making Bat

Taxonomy

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

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

Uroderma bilobatum

Other common names

Peters's Tent-making Bat · White-lined Tent-making Bat

Type material

ZMB 411

Type kind

lectotype

Type locality

"St. Paulo in Brasilien [= São Paulo, Brazil] … [and] Cayenne [French Guiana]." Restricted by K. Andersen in 1908 to São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. According to G. S. T. Garbino and M. R. Nogueira in 2017, the type probably came from eastern Brazil, possibly Bahia.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Trinidad and Tobago · Colombia · Venezuela · Guyana · Suriname · French Guiana · Ecuador · Peru · Bolivia · Brazil

Taxonomy notes

previously included U. convexum and U. davisi

Taxonomy notes citation

Mantilla-Meluk, H. (2014). Defining species and species boundaries in Uroderma (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) with a description of a new species. Museum of Texas Tech University, 325, 1-21.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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