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.

Original 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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