Thyroptera discifera
(H. Lichtenstein & W. C. H. Peters, 1854)
Peters's Disk-winged Bat
Taxonomy
Subclass | : Theria |
Infraclass | : Placentalia |
Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
Order | : Chiroptera |
Suborder | : Vespertilioniformes |
Superfamily | : Noctilionoidea |
Family | : Thyropteridae |
Genus | : Thyroptera |
Species status
Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005
Authority citation
Lichtenstein, H. and Peters, W.C.H. 1854. Über Hyonycteris, eine neue Gattung von Flederthieren aus Puerto Cabello. Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1854:335-336.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11068236Original name as described
Hyonycteris discifera
Type material
ZMB 59067
Type kind
lectotype
Type locality
"Puerto Cabello (America Centralis)." Corrected by D. E. Wilson in 1976 to Puerto Cabello, Carabobo, Venezuela.
Biogeographic realm
Neotropic
Country distribution
Nicaragua · Costa Rica · Panama · Colombia · Venezuela · Guyana · Suriname · French Guiana · Brazil · Peru · Bolivia
IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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