Vampyressa elisabethae

V. da C. Tavares, A. L. Gardner, Ramírez-Chaves, & Velazco, 2014

Kalko's Yellow-eared Bat

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Tavares, V. da C., Gardner, A.L., Ramírez-Chaves, H.E. and Velazco, P.M. 2014-10-02. Systematics of _Vampyressa melissa_ Thomas, 1926 (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae), with descriptions of two new species of Vampyressa. American Museum Novitates 3813:1-27.

Original name as described

Vampyressa elisabethae

Other common names

Elisabeth's Yellow-eared Bat

Type material

USNM:MAMM:319283

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"evergreen forests of Rancho Mojica, upper Changena River, ±20 miles [= 32.2 km] SSW of Changuinola (9°6' N, 82°34' W; 1463 m), Provincia Bocas del Toro, Panama."

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Panama

Taxonomy notes

recently described

Taxonomy notes citation

Tavares, V. D. C., Gardner, A. L., Ramírez-Chaves, H. E., & Velazco, P. M. (2014). Systematics of Vampyressa melissa Thomas, 1926 (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), with descriptions of two new species of Vampyressa. American Museum Novitates, 3813, 1-27.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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