Thyroptera tricolor

von Spix, 1823

Spix'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

Spix, J.B. von. 1823. Simiarum et vespertilionum brasiliensium species novae, ou histoire naturelle des espèces nouvelles de singes et de chauves-souris observées et recueillies pendant le voyage dans l'intérieur du Brésil exécuté par ordre de S. M. le roi de Bavière dans les années 1817, 1818, 1819, 1820. Franciscus Seraphicus Hübschmann, Munich, 72 pp.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57826990

Original name as described

Thyroptera tricolor

Type material

lost (number not known)

Type kind

nonexistent

Type locality

"ad littora fluminis Amazonum." Restricted by A. M. Husson in 1962 to "lower Amazon River below Santo Antônio Dolçá at the mouth of the Rio Icá," Brazil.

Biogeographic realm

Nearctic · Neotropic

Country distribution

Mexico · Guatemala · Belize · Honduras · Nicaragua · Costa Rica · Panama · Colombia · Venezuela · Trinidad and Tobago · Guyana · Suriname · French Guiana · Ecuador · Peru · Brazil · Bolivia

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005097

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Thyroptera tricolor

von Spix, 1823

Family

Thyropteridae

Root name

tricolor

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

lost (number not known)

Type kind

nonexistent

Authority page

61

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57826990

Authority publication

Munich

Name usages

  1. Allen (1900:94) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/15962)
  2. Goodwin (1946:330) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/15800)
  3. Thomas (1972:150) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/50336)
  4. Corbet & Hill (1980:62) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  5. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:169, 170) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  6. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
  7. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #21879) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  8. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #21879) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  9. Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:423) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
  10. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005097) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  11. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/21879/97207863) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Dysopes thyropterus

(H. R. Schinz, 1844)

Family

Thyropteridae

Root name

thyroptera

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

nomen_novum

Type

lost (number not known)

Type kind

nonexistent

Authority page

148

Authority publication

Solothurn

Name usages

Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)

Thyroptera tricolor albigula

G. M. Allen, 1923

Family

Thyropteridae

Root name

albigula

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

MCZ:Mamm:20143

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Mamm:20143

Authority page

1

Authority publication

Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club

Name usages

  1. Goodwin (1946:330) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/15800)
  2. Thomas (1972:150) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/50336)
  3. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)

Thyroptera tricolor juquiaensis

C. O. da C. Vieira, 1942

Family

Thyropteridae

Root name

juquiaensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

MZUSP 5702

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

391

Authority publication

Arquivos de zoologia do estado de São Paulo

Name usages

Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)

Thyroptera bicolor

Cantraine, 1845

Family

Thyropteridae

Root name

bicolor

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

RMNH.MAM.17551.a, RMNH.MAM.17551.b

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/RMNH.MAM.17551.a https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/RMNH.MAM.17551.b

Authority page

489

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38669143

Authority publication

Bulletin de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique

Name usages

Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)

Hyonycteris albiventer

(Tomes, 1856)

Family

Thyropteridae

Root name

albiventris

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

179

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12860713

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

Thiroptera tricolor

Lesson, 1842

Family

Thyropteridae

Root name

tricolor

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

19

Authority publication

Paris

Name usages

Lesson (1842:19) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36812)

Thyroptera albiventer

G. G. Goodwin, 1946

Family

Thyropteridae

Root name

albiventer

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination · incorrect_subsequent_spelling

Authority page

330

Authority publication

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History

Name usages

Goodwin (1946:330) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/15800)

Thyroptera tricolor tricolor

Simmons, 2005

Family

Thyropteridae

Root name

tricolor

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority publication

Baltimore

Name usages

Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)

Thyroptera tricolor albiventer

Dunn, 1931

Family

Thyropteridae

Root name

albiventer

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

incorrectsubsequentspelling

Authority page

430

Authority publication

Journal of Mammalogy

Name usages

Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)

Thyroptera tricolor albiventris

D. E. Wilson, 2008

Family

Thyropteridae

Root name

albiventris

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

incorrectsubsequentspelling

Authority page

395

Authority publication

Chicago

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